Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 52
तस्मान्न तिष्ठामि गिरेः समीपे व्रजामि चाद्यैव वनांतरं पुनः । इत्येवमुक्त्वा स जगाम मार्गं दुरत्ययं योगेनामप्यगम्यम्
tasmānna tiṣṭhāmi gireḥ samīpe vrajāmi cādyaiva vanāṃtaraṃ punaḥ | ityevamuktvā sa jagāma mārgaṃ duratyayaṃ yogenāmapyagamyam
Потому я не останусь близ горы; уже сегодня вновь уйду в глубь леса. Сказав так, он пошёл по пути труднопроходимому, недоступному даже силой йоги.
Śiva
Tirtha: Kedāra environs (giri-samīpa and araṇyāntara)
Type: peak
Scene: A solitary figure turns away from a looming sacred mountain and enters a dense, shadowed forest; the path narrows into a near-mystical corridor, suggesting it is ‘unapproachable even by yoga’.
FAQs
Withdrawal from tempting circumstances and turning inward (symbolized by the forest) is portrayed as a corrective move toward steadiness and purity.
The verse evokes the Himalayan mountain-and-forest sacred landscape central to Kedāra-khaṇḍa, though it does not name Kedāra explicitly in this line.
None; it describes movement/withdrawal rather than a formal rite.
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