Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 18
पथिक उवाच । अस्ति कान्तीपुरीनाम पुरंदरपुरी यथा । सुस्थितैः सेविता नित्यं जनैर्धर्मव्रतान्वितैः
pathika uvāca | asti kāntīpurīnāma puraṃdarapurī yathā | susthitaiḥ sevitā nityaṃ janairdharmavratānvitaiḥ
पथिक म्हणाला—‘कांतीपुरी’ नावाची एक नगरी आहे, पुरंदर (इंद्र)पुरीसारखी; तेथे धर्म-व्रतांनी युक्त स्थिर जन नित्य वास करून तिची सेवा करतात।
Pathika (the traveler/guest)
Tirtha: Kāntīpurī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A verbal panorama of Kāntīpurī: orderly streets, prosperous homes, temples, and dharma-observant citizens; the city is likened to Indra’s Amarāvatī.
FAQs
A place becomes spiritually luminous through dharmic residents and vowed living; sacred geography is shaped by collective virtue.
Kāntīpurī is introduced as an exemplary city; the specific tīrtha connected to healing is described later in the traveler’s narration.
Dharma-vrata (righteous vows/observances) is referenced generally, without naming a particular rite.