Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 3
श्रीमार्कण्डेय उवाच । साधु साधु महाप्राज्ञ पृष्टोऽहं नृपनन्दन । स्नानार्थं नर्मदां पुण्यामागतस्ते पिता पुरा
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca | sādhu sādhu mahāprājña pṛṣṭo'haṃ nṛpanandana | snānārthaṃ narmadāṃ puṇyāmāgataste pitā purā
ಶ್ರೀ ಮಾರ್ಕಂಡೇಯರು ಹೇಳಿದರು— ಸಾಧು ಸಾಧು, ಮಹಾಪ್ರಾಜ್ಞ ರಾಜಕುಮಾರನೇ! ನೀನು ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಕೇಳಿದೆ. ಪೂರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿನ್ನ ತಂದೆ ಸ್ನಾನಾರ್ಥವಾಗಿ ಪುಣ್ಯ ನರ್ಮದೆಯ ಬಳಿಗೆ ಬಂದನು.
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Revā/Narmadā
Type: river
Listener: nṛpanandana (royal son; contextually a Mahābhārata-era interlocutor)
Scene: An aged sage Mārkaṇḍeya, serene and radiant, addresses a royal youth; behind them flows the broad Revā/Narmadā with ghāṭa steps and pilgrims preparing for snāna.
FAQs
Holy bathing (tīrtha-snāna) is upheld as a dharmic purifier, and sincere questions are praised as gateways to sacred knowledge.
The Narmadā is explicitly praised as holy; the Yamahāsya origin narrative is being introduced.
Snāna (ritual bathing) in the holy Narmadā.