Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 7
मायापुरीश्रिता ये च ये च कान्तीनिवासिनः । एते चान्ये च मुनयः सशिष्या बहवोऽमलाः
māyāpurīśritā ye ca ye ca kāntīnivāsinaḥ | ete cānye ca munayaḥ saśiṣyā bahavo'malāḥ
Die in Māyāpurī Zuflucht genommen hatten und die in Kāntī wohnten — diese und viele andere makellose Weisen, samt ihren Schülern, waren zugegen.
Sūta (assembly-description context)
Tirtha: Māyāpurī; Kāntī
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Stainless sages with their disciples arrive in orderly groups, carrying manuscripts and waterpots; the scene highlights teacher-disciple lines converging like tributaries into a single river of tradition.
FAQs
Purity of mind and disciplined lineage (sages with disciples) are highlighted as the proper vessel for receiving a māhātmya.
Māyāpurī and Kāntī are referenced as recognized sacred residences of sages within the Purāṇic sacred map.
No ritual is prescribed here; the verse emphasizes the presence of many pure sages with their disciples.