Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 20
तस्य पुत्रः सुविख्यातः सुवर्चा इति विश्रुतः । एको बभूव वृद्धत्वे कथंचिद्द्विजसत्तमाः
tasya putraḥ suvikhyātaḥ suvarcā iti viśrutaḥ | eko babhūva vṛddhatve kathaṃciddvijasattamāḥ
তাঁর পুত্র অত্যন্ত প্রসিদ্ধ ‘সুবর্চা’ নামে খ্যাত ছিলেন; আর রাজা বৃদ্ধ হলেও কোনোভাবে তিনি একমাত্র পুত্ররূপে জন্মেছিলেন—হে দ্বিজসত্তমগণ।
Sūta
Tirtha: Gomukha (contextual)
Type: tirtha
Listener: ṛṣayaḥ
Scene: An aged king and queen receive or behold their famed son Suvarcā—an only child—suggesting a hard-won boon; sages narrate the rarity and renown of the birth.
FAQs
Purāṇic tīrtha narratives often root sacred geography in human lineage and life-events, showing how personal destiny intersects with holy places.
The same setting of Ambarīṣa’s story that culminates in the Gomukha-tīrtha māhātmya.
None in this verse; it provides background for the tīrtha’s origin account.