Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 42
यथा मे भ्रमरो जातो गुरुस्तद्वद्वदामि च । कस्मिन्वृक्षे मया दृष्टो भ्रमरः कोऽपि संगतः
yathā me bhramaro jāto gurustadvadvadāmi ca | kasminvṛkṣe mayā dṛṣṭo bhramaraḥ ko'pi saṃgataḥ
Sebagaimana seekor lebah menjadi guruku, demikian juga aku akan berkata. Pada pohon yang manakah aku melihat lebah itu—yang entah bagaimana telah kutemui (di sana)?
Unspecified (deduced: first-person narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇa interlocutor
Scene: A large flowering tree with a beehive; a wandering ascetic looks up as a bee moves among blossoms. The scene is poised at the start of a teaching-story, with the tree as a sacred witness.
FAQs
The seeker learns dharma from living examples; even a bee can illustrate disciplined seeking and non-hoarding.
No tīrtha is specified in this verse; it sets up a narrative illustration within the tīrtha-māhātmya chapter.
None explicitly; the verse introduces an instructive account (upākhyāna) rather than a rite.