Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 39
विश्वामित्र उवाच । वरं वरय धर्मज्ञ क्षिप्रमेव विमत्सरः । भक्त्या परमया धीर संतुष्टोऽस्मि विशेषतः
viśvāmitra uvāca | varaṃ varaya dharmajña kṣiprameva vimatsaraḥ | bhaktyā paramayā dhīra saṃtuṣṭo'smi viśeṣataḥ
Viśvāmitra sprach: „O Kenner des Dharma, wähle rasch eine Gabe, frei von Neid. O Standhafter, ich bin besonders erfreut über deine höchste Hingabe.“
Viśvāmitra
Tirtha: Ayodhyā
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis/assembly (contextual)
Scene: Viśvāmitra addresses the dharma-knowing recipient with warmth, offering a boon; the recipient stands with folded hands, humility and non-envy emphasized; the air feels charged with auspicious grace.
FAQs
Supreme devotion and freedom from envy qualify one to receive grace and boons.
Ayodhyā’s sanctity forms the narrative frame, though the verse focuses on the ethics of receiving a boon.
No explicit rite; the implied discipline is vimatsaratā (non-envy) and bhakti.