Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 47
सूत उवाच । इत्थं तदा समाकर्ण्य कुम्भयोनिमुनेस्तदा । कृष्णद्वैपायनो व्यासः पुनः पप्रच्छ कौतुकात्
sūta uvāca | itthaṃ tadā samākarṇya kumbhayonimunestadā | kṛṣṇadvaipāyano vyāsaḥ punaḥ papraccha kautukāt
സൂതൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഇങ്ങനെ കുംഭയോനി മുനി അഗസ്ത്യന്റെ വചനങ്ങൾ ശ്രവിച്ച ശേഷം, കൗതുകവശാൽ കൃഷ്ണദ്വൈപായന വ്യാസൻ വീണ്ടും അദ്ദേഹത്തോട് ചോദിച്ചു।
Sūta
Tirtha: Sahasradhārā (introduced by frame)
Type: kund
Listener: (implied) Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages
Scene: A forest-āśrama setting: Sūta recounts how Vyāsa, after hearing Agastya, asks again with bright curiosity; palm-leaf manuscripts, water-pot (kamaṇḍalu), and seated sages in a semicircle.
FAQs
Reverent inquiry into tīrtha-māhātmya is itself a devotional act; sacred knowledge is transmitted through respectful dialogue.
Indirectly Sahasradhārā and the Ayodhyā tīrthas, as the dialogue transitions into their detailed praise.
None; it establishes the narrative setting and the questioning that leads to the tīrtha’s glorification.