Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14
यो मार्कंड इति ख्यातः प्रथमं परिकीर्तितः । संभूतिस्तस्य संप्रोक्ता युष्माकं पापनाशिनी
yo mārkaṃḍa iti khyātaḥ prathamaṃ parikīrtitaḥ | saṃbhūtistasya saṃproktā yuṣmākaṃ pāpanāśinī
जो ‘मार्कंड’ म्हणून ख्यात आहे, त्याचे प्रथम कीर्तन केले जाते; आता त्याची उत्पत्ती सांगितली जाईल—ही कथा तुमची पापे नष्ट करणारी आहे।
Sūta
Listener: yūyam (addressed audience, likely sages)
Scene: The narrator announces Markaṇḍa’s famed name and promises to recount his birth/origin; listeners lean forward in anticipation, suggesting the kathā’s purifying power.
FAQs
Remembering and hearing the lives of great ṛṣis within a tīrtha-māhātmya is itself purifying (pāpa-nāśinī).
The verse introduces a key figure (Markaṇḍa) likely tied to the site’s sanctity; the exact tīrtha context is developed next.
No explicit ritual; the purificatory act highlighted is attentive hearing of the forthcoming account.
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