Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 4
एतत्सर्वं कथय मे ऋषिभिः सहितस्य वै । अस्य तीर्थस्य माहात्म्यं माण्डव्यस्य कुतूहलात्
etatsarvaṃ kathaya me ṛṣibhiḥ sahitasya vai | asya tīrthasya māhātmyaṃ māṇḍavyasya kutūhalāt
ขอท่านเล่าเรื่องทั้งหมดแก่ข้าโดยพิสดารเถิด ขณะที่ข้านั่งอยู่ท่ามกลางหมู่ฤๅษี ด้วยความใคร่รู้เกี่ยวกับมาณฑวยะ และด้วยความปรารถนาจะทราบมหิมาแห่งตีรถะอันศักดิ์สิทธิ์นี้
Yudhiṣṭhira
Tirtha: Māṇḍavya-tīrtha
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mārkaṇḍeya
Scene: Yudhiṣṭhira, seated among sages, leans forward with folded hands, requesting a complete account of Māṇḍavya and the tīrtha’s greatness; the sages form a luminous semicircle of attentive witnesses.
FAQs
Respectful inquiry into tīrtha-māhātmya, in the presence of sages, is itself a dhārmic approach to learning sacred history and practice.
The Revā Khaṇḍa tīrtha associated with Māṇḍavya (and earlier, Nārāyaṇa), whose māhātmya Yudhiṣṭhira requests.
No explicit ritual here; it initiates the māhātmya narration that typically culminates in prescriptions like snāna, dāna, and worship.