Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 39
विश्वामित्र उवाच । वरं वरय धर्मज्ञ क्षिप्रमेव विमत्सरः । भक्त्या परमया धीर संतुष्टोऽस्मि विशेषतः
viśvāmitra uvāca | varaṃ varaya dharmajña kṣiprameva vimatsaraḥ | bhaktyā paramayā dhīra saṃtuṣṭo'smi viśeṣataḥ
ヴィシュヴァーミトラは言った。「おお、ダルマを知る者よ、ねたみを離れて速やかに恩寵を選べ。おお、堅固なる者よ、汝の至高の信愛により、我はとりわけ満ち足りている。」
Viśvāmitra
Tirtha: Ayodhyā
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis/assembly (contextual)
Scene: Viśvāmitra addresses the dharma-knowing recipient with warmth, offering a boon; the recipient stands with folded hands, humility and non-envy emphasized; the air feels charged with auspicious grace.
FAQs
Supreme devotion and freedom from envy qualify one to receive grace and boons.
Ayodhyā’s sanctity forms the narrative frame, though the verse focuses on the ethics of receiving a boon.
No explicit rite; the implied discipline is vimatsaratā (non-envy) and bhakti.