Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 2
ततः सरस्वतीतीरे यानि भूतानि नारद । ग्रहाश्चोपग्रहाश्चैव वेतालाः शाकिनी गणाः
tataḥ sarasvatītīre yāni bhūtāni nārada | grahāścopagrahāścaiva vetālāḥ śākinī gaṇāḥ
तब, हे नारद, सरस्वती के तट पर अनेक भूत-प्राणी—ग्रह, उपग्रह, वेताल तथा शाकिनियों के गण—एकत्र हुए।
Nārada
Tirtha: Sarasvatī-tīra
Type: ghat
Listener: Nārada (vocative in verse)
Scene: On the misty bank of Sarasvatī, shadowy hosts—grahas and upagrahas as astral-personified forces, vetālas, and śākinī-gaṇas—gather in the twilight as Skanda’s divine procession approaches, the river shining as a boundary between worlds.
FAQs
The Purāṇas portray the world as layered with visible and invisible beings; divine missions move through—and subdue—such forces in service of dharma.
The Sarasvatī riverbank is indicated as a significant sacred landscape within the journey narrative.
None explicitly; the verse catalogs classes of beings associated with the locale and the unfolding campaign.