Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 53
ऊचुस्ते विस्मिताः सर्वे स्वप्नोऽयं वाथ विभ्रमः । ससंभ्रमाः समुत्थाय ददृशुः सत्यमंदिरम्
ūcuste vismitāḥ sarve svapno'yaṃ vātha vibhramaḥ | sasaṃbhramāḥ samutthāya dadṛśuḥ satyamaṃdiram
അവർ എല്ലാവരും അത്ഭുതത്തോടെ പറഞ്ഞു—“ഇത് സ്വപ്നമാണോ, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മായയോ?” പിന്നെ വ്യാകുലമായി എഴുന്നേറ്റ് സത്യമന്ദിരം ദർശിച്ചു।
Narrator (contextual; likely Sūta/Vyāsa-style narration within the Māhātmya)
Tirtha: Satyamandira (Dharmāraṇya)
Type: ghat
Scene: Pilgrims, startled and wide-eyed, point toward a newly-seen temple emerging from the forest—Satyamandira—its doorway radiant, as if reality itself has taken architectural form.
FAQs
Doubt gives way to direct darśana; sacred places convert uncertainty into lived certainty of the divine.
Dharmāraṇya, where a ‘true shrine’ is revealed as the culmination of the wondrous experience.
None explicitly; the implied act is darśana—going forth and beholding the shrine.