Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 4
सुखासीनं च तं दृष्ट्वा विघ्नांतमुपलक्ष्य च । अथापृच्छंस्त ऋषयः काश्चित्प्रास्ताविकीः कथाः
sukhāsīnaṃ ca taṃ dṛṣṭvā vighnāṃtamupalakṣya ca | athāpṛcchaṃsta ṛṣayaḥ kāścitprāstāvikīḥ kathāḥ
അവനെ സുഖാസീനനായി കണ്ടും വിഘ്നങ്ങൾ ശമിച്ചതായി ഗ്രഹിച്ചും, സംവാദാരംഭത്തിനായി ഋഷിമാർ ചില പ്രാസ്താവിക ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ ചോദിച്ചു।
Narrator
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Listener: assembled ṛṣis
Scene: A tranquil forest āśrama: sages seated in a semicircle, the Sūta comfortably seated on a low āsana; the atmosphere suggests that earlier disturbances have ceased; hands raised in respectful inquiry.
FAQs
Sacred teaching proceeds with proper preparation—settling the setting, removing hindrances, and beginning with fitting questions.
The scene remains in Naimiṣāraṇya; the verse itself does not praise a distinct tīrtha.
No explicit ritual; it implies vighna-śānti (removal of obstacles) as a prerequisite for dharma-kathā.