Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 17
अन्यो जानाति मे पूर्वं जातस्ते तापसोत्तमः । स्तुतिं चक्रुश्च विप्रेंद्रा जानुभ्यामवनिं गताः
anyo jānāti me pūrvaṃ jātaste tāpasottamaḥ | stutiṃ cakruśca vipreṃdrā jānubhyāmavaniṃ gatāḥ
ഹേ തപസ്സികളിൽ ശ്രേഷ്ഠനേ! മറ്റൊരാൾ എന്റെ മുൻകൃത്യങ്ങൾ അറിയുന്നു; ആ വിപ്രേന്ദ്രർ മുട്ടുകുത്തി ഭൂമിയിൽ നമസ്കരിച്ചു സ്തുതി ചെയ്തു।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator continuing the scene of sages’ praise)
Tirtha: Nāgara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: A revered ascetic is addressed (‘O best of ascetics’); brāhmaṇas kneel and chant; the scene suggests a council of sages interpreting the miracle as rooted in earlier deeds.
FAQs
The holy place inspires reverence: sages respond to divine presence with humility and devotional praise.
A tīrtha within Nāgara Khaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya is being celebrated; the site-name is not explicit in this verse.
The act shown is stuti (hymnic praise) with reverential kneeling/prostration; no formal rite is specified.