Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
तत्पुष्पमालां हृदये तीर्थस्तबकचित्रिताम् । दधाति सततं पुण्यां मुनिर्भृगुकुलोद्वहः । तस्याः स्तबकसंस्थानं वक्ष्येऽहमृषिसत्तमाः
tatpuṣpamālāṃ hṛdaye tīrthastabakacitritām | dadhāti satataṃ puṇyāṃ munirbhṛgukulodvahaḥ | tasyāḥ stabakasaṃsthānaṃ vakṣye'hamṛṣisattamāḥ
ತೀರ್ಥಸ್ತಬಕಗಳಿಂದ ಅಲಂಕರಿಸಲ್ಪಟ್ಟ ಆ ಪುಣ್ಯಪುಷ್ಪಮಾಲೆಯನ್ನು ಭೃಗುಕುಲದ ಗರ್ವವಾದ ಮುನಿ ಸದಾ ತನ್ನ ಹೃದಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಧರಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಓ ಋಷಿಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠರೇ, ಈಗ ನಾನು ಆ ಗುಚ್ಛಗಳ ವಿನ್ಯಾಸವನ್ನು ಹೇಳುವೆನು.
Sūta
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha-stabaka (collective)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣi-sattamāḥ / dvija-śreṣṭhas
Scene: A venerable Bhārgava sage is shown with a radiant heart-lotus bearing a garland made of many small flower-clusters, each cluster symbolizing a group of tīrthas; the narrator gestures as if about to explain the arrangement.
FAQs
The truest ‘map’ of tīrthas is held in remembrance and devotion; sacred geography becomes inner cultivation.
The collective Revā tīrthas, presented as a garland organized into clusters.
None directly; it announces the forthcoming systematic description of tīrtha clusters.