Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 2
युधिष्ठिर उवाच । कोऽसौ द्विजवरश्रेष्ठः सिद्धस्तत्र महामुने । दारुकेति सुतः कस्य एतन्मे वक्तुमर्हसि
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | ko'sau dvijavaraśreṣṭhaḥ siddhastatra mahāmune | dāruketi sutaḥ kasya etanme vaktumarhasi
ਯੁਧਿਸ਼ਠਿਰ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ: ਹੇ ਮਹਾਮੁਨੇ, ਉੱਥੇ ਸਿੱਧੀ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ ਉਹ ਦ੍ਵਿਜਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਸ੍ਰੇਸ਼ਠ ਕੌਣ ਹੈ? ‘ਦਾਰੁਕ’—ਉਹ ਕਿਸ ਦਾ ਪੁੱਤਰ ਹੈ? ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਇਹ ਦੱਸੋ।
Yudhiṣṭhira
Tirtha: Dāru-tīrtha (context)
Type: ghat
Listener: Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Scene: Yudhiṣṭhira, seated respectfully, questions Mārkaṇḍeya; behind them the Narmadā flows, indicating the setting of the tīrtha discourse; the mood is attentive and contemplative.
FAQs
In tīrtha-māhātmya narratives, spiritual authority is often established through the life-story and lineage of the realized practitioner.
Dāru-tīrtha on the Narmadā’s northern bank (introduced in the preceding verse).
None; the verse is an inquiry that sets up the tīrtha’s glorification through a saint’s biography.
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