Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 67
पीडितो वृद्धभावेन भक्त्या प्रीतो नरेश्वर । उद्देशं कथयिष्यामि द्विक्रोशाभ्यन्तरे स्थितः
pīḍito vṛddhabhāvena bhaktyā prīto nareśvara | uddeśaṃ kathayiṣyāmi dvikrośābhyantare sthitaḥ
Ô roi, bien que la vieillesse m’accable, ta dévotion me réjouit. Je décrirai l’emplacement, situé dans un périmètre de deux krośas.
Unnamed Purāṇic narrator/guide figure within the narrative (addressing a king, likely Yudhiṣṭhira-context)
Tirtha: Ravitīrtha
Type: kshetra
Listener: Narādhipa (king)
Scene: An elderly sage, physically worn yet inwardly bright, addresses a devoted king and points toward a mapped sacred circuit around the river ford.
FAQs
Devotion draws guidance: the tradition ties bhakti with precise sacred-geographical instruction for pilgrimage.
The verse continues the Ravitīrtha context, now giving its spatial ‘uddeśa’ (locational indication).
No ritual act; it provides pilgrimage-location framing (within two krośas).