Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
सूत उवाच । स तथेति प्रतिज्ञाय ऋचीको मुनिसत्तमः । कान्यकुब्जं समासाद्य गंगातीरे विवेश ह
sūta uvāca | sa tatheti pratijñāya ṛcīko munisattamaḥ | kānyakubjaṃ samāsādya gaṃgātīre viveśa ha
Sūta sprach: „So sei es.“ Nachdem Ṛcīka, der Beste der Weisen, sein Gelübde gegeben hatte, brach er auf. Als er Kānyakubja erreichte, betrat er das Ufer der heiligen Gaṅgā.
Sūta
Tirtha: Gaṅgā-tīra at Kānyakubja
Type: ghat
Listener: (implied) Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages
Scene: Sūta narrates: Ṛcīka, having vowed, journeys to Kānyakubja and steps onto the Gaṅgā’s bank—broad river, morning light, the sage’s silhouette with kamaṇḍalu, birds over water, distant ghāṭa activity.
FAQs
Holy places become stages where resolve, purity, and sacred intention ripen into divine outcomes.
The Gaṅgā-bank near Kānyakubja—later renowned as Aśvatīrtha.
None in this verse; it establishes the sacred setting (Gaṅgā-tīra) for subsequent mantra-practice.