Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 22
शब्दस्पर्शौ तथा रूपं रसो गंधस्तथैव च । प्रकृतिश्च विकारश्च सदसत्कारणं तथा
śabdasparśau tathā rūpaṃ raso gaṃdhastathaiva ca | prakṛtiśca vikāraśca sadasatkāraṇaṃ tathā
சப்தம், ஸ்பரிசம், அதுபோல் ரூபம், ரசம், கந்தம்; பிரக்ருதி, விகாரம், மேலும் சத்-அசத் தொடர்புடைய காரணத் தத்துவங்கள்—இவையெல்லாம் அங்கு இருந்தன.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating to the sages (deduced from Purāṇic frame; exact speaker not in snippet)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Scene: An allegorical tableau: five subtle sense-objects appear as luminous glyphs or deities (sound as conch/veena-wave, touch as breeze, form as radiant orb, taste as nectar bowl, smell as flower); Prakṛti as a veiled cosmic mother; Vikāra as shifting patterns; sat/asat causes as twin pillars.
FAQs
The verse portrays the sacred assembly as a meeting-point of metaphysical principles, implying that true dharma integrates sensory experience with insight into primal nature and causality.
Dharmāraṇya is the sanctified context; the verse is cosmological rather than topographical.
None; it is a doctrinal listing of principles (tattvas/tanmātras).