Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 41
स्थित्वा त्रिरात्रं ते विप्रा गमने कृतबुद्धयः । रात्रौ हनुमतोऽग्रे त इदमूचुः सुभक्तितः
sthitvā trirātraṃ te viprā gamane kṛtabuddhayaḥ | rātrau hanumato'gre ta idamūcuḥ subhaktitaḥ
After staying for three nights, those Brāhmaṇas resolved to depart. Then, at night, standing before Hanumān, they spoke these words with deep devotion.
Narrator (contextual; later explicitly Vyāsa)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Listener: O King (rājan) implied by vocative in adjacent narration
Scene: Night in a forest shrine: brāhmaṇas with lamps stand before Hanumān, hands folded, faces earnest; the sense of concluding a vow after three nights.
FAQs
Gratitude and bhakti toward the protector-deity are integral to righteous travel and religious life.
Dharmāraṇya remains the sacred landscape framing the episode.
No explicit rite is prescribed here; the emphasis is on devotional address (prārthanā) to Hanumān.
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