Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 3
तस्य तीर्थस्य माहात्म्यं पुराणे यच्छ्रुतं मया । न तद्वर्णयितुं शक्यं संक्षेपेण वदाम्यतः
tasya tīrthasya māhātmyaṃ purāṇe yacchrutaṃ mayā | na tadvarṇayituṃ śakyaṃ saṃkṣepeṇa vadāmyataḥ
Die Größe dieser Tīrtha, wie ich sie in den Purāṇas vernommen habe, lässt sich wahrhaft nicht schildern; darum will ich sie nur kurz darlegen.
Mārkaṇḍeya (contextual continuation)
Tirtha: Karkaṭeśvara (referent)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dharmaputra (Yudhiṣṭhira)
Scene: Sage Mārkaṇḍeya, hands raised in a modest gesture, acknowledges the immeasurable greatness of the tīrtha while preparing to narrate briefly; manuscripts or a symbolic Purāṇa text may appear beside him.
FAQs
Sacred places are presented as possessing an immeasurable potency; Purāṇic narration itself is a vehicle of transmitting that sanctity.
The tīrtha previously introduced—Karkaṭeśvara on the Narmadā.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; it establishes the rhetorical frame that the tīrtha’s glory is vast and only summarized.