Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 133
श्रुत्वा नः कथयामास कथां गोष्ठीषु पृच्छताम् । तव चास्माभिरधुना सर्वमेतदुदीरितम्
śrutvā naḥ kathayāmāsa kathāṃ goṣṭhīṣu pṛcchatām | tava cāsmābhiradhunā sarvametadudīritam
അത് ശ്രവിച്ച നാരദൻ, ഞങ്ങളുടെ സംഗമങ്ങളിൽ ഞങ്ങൾ ചോദിച്ചപ്പോൾ ആ കഥ പറഞ്ഞു. ഇപ്പോൾ ഞങ്ങൾ ഇതെല്ലാം നിനക്കു പ്രസ്താവിച്ചു.
Dvijāḥ (the narrating Brāhmaṇas/sages)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (as the subject of narration)
Type: kshetra
Listener: The immediate addressee in the text (unnamed here) and the broader audience
Scene: Nārada, after hearing Śiva-Devī’s dialogue, sits among brāhmaṇas in a village/temple courtyard; they ask, he narrates; later the brāhmaṇas relay the same to another listener, forming a chain of sacred memory.
FAQs
Sacred knowledge is preserved through listening, inquiry, and communal recitation—kathā shared in assemblies.
Prabhāsakṣetra remains the underlying sacred context of the narrated dialogue.
None explicitly; the implied practice is śravaṇa (hearing) and kathā-kīrtana (narration/recitation).