Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 9
ऋषय ऊचुः । अन्यस्मिन्दिवसे तत्र कस्मिन्काले रघूत्तमः । संप्राप्तस्तस्य किं दुःखं संजातं तत्प्रकीर्तय
ṛṣaya ūcuḥ | anyasmindivase tatra kasminkāle raghūttamaḥ | saṃprāptastasya kiṃ duḥkhaṃ saṃjātaṃ tatprakīrtaya
ऋषी म्हणाले—तेथे दुसऱ्या दिवशी कोणत्या वेळी रघुकुलश्रेष्ठ (राम) आला? आणि त्याला कोणते दुःख उत्पन्न झाले? ते सविस्तर सांगावे।
Ṛṣayaḥ (Sages)
Tirtha: Rāmeśvara (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sūta (as respondent)
Scene: A circle of sages seated in a forest hermitage, leaning forward in curiosity, asking the narrator to recount Rāma’s arrival time and the sorrow that arose.
FAQs
Dharma is understood through careful listening to sacred narration; inquiry into a righteous king’s trials becomes a doorway to tīrtha-māhātmya teaching.
This verse is a narrative prompt within the Tīrthamāhātmya of Nāgara Khaṇḍa; the specific tīrtha is not named in this single shloka.
None in this shloka; it introduces a question requesting the account of events.