Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 5
विंध्यनारदसंवादः प्रथमे परिकीर्तितः । सत्यलोकप्रभावश्च द्वितीयः समुदाहृतः
viṃdhyanāradasaṃvādaḥ prathame parikīrtitaḥ | satyalokaprabhāvaśca dvitīyaḥ samudāhṛtaḥ
प्रथमे विंध्यनारदसंवादः परिकीर्तितः; द्वितीये सत्यलोकस्य प्रभावः समुदाहृतः।
Sūta — inferred (index-style enumeration)
Tirtha: Vindhya (contextual) / Satyaloka (cosmological)
Type: peak
Listener: Sūta/Jātūkarṇya and assembly
Scene: A split tableau: (1) Vindhya mountain personified conversing with sage Nārada holding vīṇā; (2) a luminous vision of Satyaloka with Brahmā’s realm, radiant architecture and serene sages.
FAQs
Purāṇic teaching links sacred geography and cosmic hierarchy—dialogue and cosmology together orient the listener toward dharma.
No single tīrtha is named in this verse; it functions as an index of earlier topics leading into Kāśī’s Māhātmya.
None; it is a topical summary (anukramaṇikā).