Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
पूर्वं भगवता तेन ब्रह्मणा लोक कर्तृणा । सृष्टिं कृत्वा च विस्तीर्णां यथोक्तं च चतुर्विधाम्
pūrvaṃ bhagavatā tena brahmaṇā loka kartṛṇā | sṛṣṭiṃ kṛtvā ca vistīrṇāṃ yathoktaṃ ca caturvidhām
Outrora, aquele Brahmā Bem-aventurado, criador dos mundos, tendo realizado a vasta criação, conforme foi declarado, em sua ordenação quádrupla…
Sūta (continuing narration)
Tirtha: Rūpa-tīrtha (origin narrative lead-in)
Type: kund
Listener: Śaunaka and sages (implied)
Scene: Brahmā, four-faced, seated on a lotus, surveys the newly expanded creation arranged in fourfold categories; the cosmos spreads outward like concentric realms, hinting that a specific tīrtha will emerge from this divine planning.
FAQs
Sacred places are framed within cosmic order: tīrtha-māhātmyas often root their power in primordial, dharma-governed creation.
The chapter context points toward Rūpa-tīrtha, though this verse itself sets the mythic preface with Brahmā.
None explicitly in this verse.