Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 23
याज्ञवल्क्यो भरद्वाजः शुनःशेपोऽथ गालवः । देवलो भागुरिर्धौम्यः कश्य पश्च्यवनो भृगुः
yājñavalkyo bharadvājaḥ śunaḥśepo'tha gālavaḥ | devalo bhāgurirdhaumyaḥ kaśya paścyavano bhṛguḥ
Yājñavalkya, Bharadvāja, Śunaḥśepa et Gālava ; Devala, Bhāguri, Dhaumya, Kaśyapa, Cyavana et Bhṛgu — tels furent les sages qui y arrivèrent.
Skanda (deduced from narrative flow)
Tirtha: अनिर्दिष्ट-तīrtha-kṣetra (Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya context)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A sacred grove or riverbank hermitage in a tīrtha-kṣetra where a procession of venerable sages arrives—each with distinctive ascetic marks, staffs, kamaṇḍalus, and matted locks—forming a luminous assembly.
FAQs
The assembly of revered ṛṣis serves as testimony to the tīrtha’s sanctity and its standing within dharmic tradition.
The sages are described as arriving at the pāpahara, puṇya tīrtha said to be connected with Viśvāmitra (named in the previous verse).
None directly; the verse functions as a tīrtha-māhātmya endorsement through the presence of eminent sages.