Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 25
सदेवासुरगन्धर्वं सपन्नगमहोरगम् । पश्याम्येषा महाभागा नैव याता क्षयं पुरा
sadevāsuragandharvaṃ sapannagamahoragam | paśyāmyeṣā mahābhāgā naiva yātā kṣayaṃ purā
ದೇವರು, ಅಸುರರು, ಗಂಧರ್ವರು ಹಾಗೂ ಸರ್ಪ-ಮಹಾನಾಗಗಳೊಡನೆ ಈ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಲೋಕವನ್ನು ನಾನು ನೋಡುತ್ತೇನೆ; ಈ ಮಹಾಭಾಗ್ಯಶಕ್ತಿ ಪೂರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಎಂದಿಗೂ ಕ್ಷಯಕ್ಕೆ ಒಳಗಾಗಿಲ್ಲ.
First-person narrator (a ṛṣi/purāṇic speaker addressing a king; exact identity not in snippet)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā)
Type: river
Listener: King (nṛpottama) and addressed dvija audience in adjacent verses
Scene: A seer beholds the entire cosmos populated by devas, asuras, gandharvas, serpents and great nāgas, while an auspicious, imperishable divine power is implied as the sustaining presence behind the vision.
FAQs
The divine principle behind the tīrtha is enduring; sacred power sustains and outlasts worldly cycles.
Narmadā/Revā by implication—her auspiciousness is described as not subject to destruction.
No explicit ritual; the focus is on the vision of the cosmos and the imperishability of sacred power.
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