Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 48
तत्र दिव्याप्सरोभिश्च देवगन्धर्वगायनैः । क्रीडते सेव्यमानस्तु कल्पकोटिशतं नृप
tatra divyāpsarobhiśca devagandharvagāyanaiḥ | krīḍate sevyamānastu kalpakoṭiśataṃ nṛpa
હે નૃપ, ત્યાં દિવ્ય અપ્સરાઓ અને દેવ-ગંધર્વ ગાયકોની સેવા પ્રાપ્ત કરીને તે સો કરોડ કલ્પો સુધી ક્રીડા કરે છે।
Unspecified (continuing address to the king)
Tirtha: Śiva-mandira / Śiva-loka (as fruit of Kusumeśa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Yudhiṣṭhira (addressed as nṛpa)
Scene: A celestial court: apsarases dance, gandharvas sing with vīṇā and mṛdaṅga; the meritorious soul sits honored on a jeweled seat amid clouds and radiant pavilions.
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Devotion and sacred practice at the tīrtha are portrayed as yielding vast, exalted posthumous enjoyments.
Kusumeśa-tīrtha, within the Revā Khaṇḍa narrative.
No new rite; it describes the phala (reward) that follows the prior disciplines taught in the passage.
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