Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9
कानि तीर्थानि मुख्यानि ह्यर्बुदे संति पर्वते । सर्वं विस्तरतो ब्रूहि परं कौतूहलं हि नः
kāni tīrthāni mukhyāni hyarbude saṃti parvate | sarvaṃ vistarato brūhi paraṃ kautūhalaṃ hi naḥ
अर्बुदपर्वते मुख्यानि तीर्थानि कानि सन्ति? तत् सर्वं विस्तरेण ब्रूहि; अस्माकं परमं कौतूहलं वर्तते।
Ṛṣis
Tirtha: Arbuda tīrtha-s (chief sites to be enumerated)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis / dvija-śreṣṭhas (assembly of sages)
Scene: A circle of attentive sages asks the narrator to reveal the chief sacred fords and shrines on the wooded, rocky heights of Arbuda; the mountain looms in the background like a pilgrimage mandala.
FAQs
Pilgrimage is guided by knowing the chief tīrthas and their specific merits, not by vague devotion alone.
Mount Arbuda as a tīrtha-cluster containing multiple principal sacred spots.
None directly; the verse requests a detailed enumeration of tīrthas (implying yātrā guidance).