Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 73
इति श्रुतं मया पूर्वं पितुरुत्संगवर्तिना । गदतस्तातपुरतः कस्यचिद्वचनं स्फुटम्
iti śrutaṃ mayā pūrvaṃ piturutsaṃgavartinā | gadatastātapurataḥ kasyacidvacanaṃ sphuṭam
முன்பு, தந்தையின் மடியில் அமர்ந்திருந்தபோது, தந்தையின் முன்னிலையில் யாரோ கூறிய இந்த வார்த்தைகளை நான் தெளிவாகக் கேட்டேன்।
Unspecified in snippet (narrative voice of the same person; Kāśīkhaṇḍa frame typically Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Vārāṇasī / Kāśī (as remembered teaching)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Current interlocutor within the story-world (not named in the verse); secondarily the Purāṇic audience
Scene: A tender domestic scene: a child seated in the father’s lap, listening as an unseen elder/visitor speaks; the words foreshadow Kāśī as refuge.
FAQs
Sacred counsel can be received through hearing (śravaṇa), and remembered later as guidance in adversity.
Kāśī/Vārāṇasī is introduced as the subject of the ‘clear words’ heard.
None; it introduces an authoritative saying that follows.