Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 26
न सिद्धा न च गंधर्वा न देवा न च किंनराः । न च तीर्थानि रम्याणि न नद्यो विमलोदकाः
na siddhā na ca gaṃdharvā na devā na ca kiṃnarāḥ | na ca tīrthāni ramyāṇi na nadyo vimalodakāḥ
तत्र न सिद्धा न गन्धर्वा न देवा न च किन्नराः; न च रम्याणि तीर्थानि, न नद्यः विमलोदकाः।
Raktaśṛṅga
Type: tirtha
Listener: implicit interlocutor within the tīrtha-māhātmya dialogue
Scene: A catalog-like vision: empty skies without celestial beings; a dull landscape lacking ghats and clear rivers; Raktaśṛṅga’s gesture indicates ‘nothing sacred here’.
FAQs
Worldly assessment of a place by external beauty is incomplete; sacredness can be established by divine intent and dharmic action.
The verse indirectly supports the later glorification of Nāgabila by portraying the mortal region as lacking obvious tirtha-signs at first.
None; it lists perceived absences (beings, tirthas, pure rivers) as a rhetorical objection.