Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 62
तेषां मध्यगतश्चासीत्पुलहो नाम सन्मुनिः । हास्यशीलः स तं प्राह विप्लवार्थं द्विजोत्तमम्
teṣāṃ madhyagataścāsītpulaho nāma sanmuniḥ | hāsyaśīlaḥ sa taṃ prāha viplavārthaṃ dvijottamam
Unter ihnen war ein wahrer Weiser namens Pulaha. Von heiterem Wesen sprach er zu jenem erhabenen Brāhmaṇa, um der Angelegenheit eine Wendung zu geben.
Narrator (within the Purāṇic narration)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A group of sages; Pulaha stands or leans forward with a gentle smile, eyes bright, about to speak—hinting at a purposeful ‘turn’ in the story.
FAQs
Purāṇic tīrtha narratives often introduce a sage whose guidance becomes the instrument for transformation and dharma-restoration.
The verse functions as narrative transition inside the Tīrthamāhātmya; it does not name a distinct tīrtha in this line.
An instruction is being set up—mantra-upadeśa—but the mantra itself appears in the following verses.