Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9
कानि तीर्थानि मुख्यानि ह्यर्बुदे संति पर्वते । सर्वं विस्तरतो ब्रूहि परं कौतूहलं हि नः
kāni tīrthāni mukhyāni hyarbude saṃti parvate | sarvaṃ vistarato brūhi paraṃ kautūhalaṃ hi naḥ
अर्बुद पर्वत पर कौन-कौन से मुख्य तीर्थ हैं? वह सब हमें विस्तार से बताइए, क्योंकि हमारी जिज्ञासा अत्यन्त प्रबल है।
Ṛṣis
Tirtha: Arbuda tīrtha-s (chief sites to be enumerated)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis / dvija-śreṣṭhas (assembly of sages)
Scene: A circle of attentive sages asks the narrator to reveal the chief sacred fords and shrines on the wooded, rocky heights of Arbuda; the mountain looms in the background like a pilgrimage mandala.
FAQs
Pilgrimage is guided by knowing the chief tīrthas and their specific merits, not by vague devotion alone.
Mount Arbuda as a tīrtha-cluster containing multiple principal sacred spots.
None directly; the verse requests a detailed enumeration of tīrthas (implying yātrā guidance).