Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 62
ततोऽहं ब्रह्मणा तात जरामरणवर्जितः । विहितः प्रेषितस्तूर्णं स्वगृहं प्रति तैः समम्
tato'haṃ brahmaṇā tāta jarāmaraṇavarjitaḥ | vihitaḥ preṣitastūrṇaṃ svagṛhaṃ prati taiḥ samam
Then, dear one, Brahmā ordained me to be free from old age and death, and promptly dispatched me—together with them—toward my own home.
Unspecified first-person narrator within the Tīrthamāhātmya
Type: kshetra
Scene: Brahmā pronounces an ordinance freeing the devotee from aging and death; the group prepares to depart swiftly toward home, with sages accompanying.
FAQs
Purāṇas depict divine boons as instruments of dharma—transforming life’s limits when sanctioned by higher cosmic authority.
The verse remains within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya storyline; the tīrtha context is developed in the surrounding bathing-lake descriptions.
None directly; the verse narrates a boon and a divinely guided journey.