Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 19
अतिथिरुवाच । आसन्नव पुरे विप्राश्चत्वारो ये विवासिताः । शुनःशेपोऽथ शाक्रेयो बौद्धो दांतश्चतुर्थकः
atithiruvāca | āsannava pure viprāścatvāro ye vivāsitāḥ | śunaḥśepo'tha śākreyo bauddho dāṃtaścaturthakaḥ
अतिथिरुवाच—आसन्नवपुरे विप्राश्चत्वारो ये विवासिताः। शुनःशेपोऽथ शाक्रेयो बौद्धो दान्तश्चतुर्थकः॥
Atithi
Tirtha: Āsannava-pura (as narrative locus)
Type: kshetra
Listener: brāhmaṇas (assembly)
Scene: A city gate of Āsannava; four brāhmaṇas with travel bundles stand outside, suggesting banishment; the narrator-guest points as he recounts their names.
FAQs
Purāṇas often introduce dharma narratives through displaced or tested brāhmaṇas, setting the stage for moral causality and sacred-site merit.
The verse names Āsannava-pura as the narrative location; the broader chapter belongs to Tīrthamāhātmya, but this line itself is introductory.
None in this verse.
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