Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 32
अर्जुन उवाच । क्व कलापं च द्ग्रामं कथं शक्यं बिलेन च । कथं स्कंदप्रसादः स्यादेतन्मे ब्रूहि नारद
arjuna uvāca | kva kalāpaṃ ca dgrāmaṃ kathaṃ śakyaṃ bilena ca | kathaṃ skaṃdaprasādaḥ syādetanme brūhi nārada
अर्जुन ने कहा—“वह कलाप ग्राम कहाँ है? और गुफा के द्वारा वहाँ कैसे पहुँचा जा सकता है? तथा स्कन्द की कृपा कैसे प्राप्त होती है? यह मुझे बताइए, हे नारद।”
Arjuna
Tirtha: Kalāpa/Kalāpaka (hidden settlement)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Nārada
Scene: Arjuna, attentive and reverent, questions sage Nārada seated in a Himalayan hermitage setting; behind them, a stylized map-like landscape shows Kedāra, a cave entrance, and a distant hidden valley labeled Kalāpa.
FAQs
A sincere seeker asks both for geography (where/how) and theology (how grace is gained)—uniting yātrā with bhakti.
Kalāpa-grāma is introduced as a sacred destination connected to the Kedāra-region narrative.
Not yet; Arjuna inquires about the means to obtain Skanda’s prasāda, which is answered in following verses.