Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 117
व्यास उवाच । अवापुस्ते कथं स्वर्गं साकेतनगरीजनाः । कथं च राघवो विद्वन्नेतत्कथय सुव्रत
vyāsa uvāca | avāpuste kathaṃ svargaṃ sāketanagarījanāḥ | kathaṃ ca rāghavo vidvannetatkathaya suvrata
Vyāsa disse: “Como os habitantes da cidade de Sāketa alcançaram o céu? E como Rāghava fez com que isso acontecesse? Ó sábio de votos nobres, conta-me isto.”
Vyāsa
Tirtha: Ayodhyā tīrtha complex (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya
Scene: Forest āśrama setting: Vyāsa seated with palm-leaf manuscript, facing Agastya; Vyāsa’s hand raised in inquiry; behind them, a faint visionary backdrop of Ayodhyā’s river and ghāṭas, indicating the subject of the question.
FAQs
Purāṇic teaching unfolds through inquiry: the listener asks for the hidden dharmic cause behind extraordinary spiritual results.
The Ayodhyā/Sāketa sacred waters and tīrtha context are being introduced for fuller explanation in the subsequent narrative.
No direct prescription; it is a question prompting the explanation of the rite and its fruit.