Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 76
किन्नरा ऊचुः । रामनाथ भवारण्ये व्याधिव्याघ्रभयानके । त्वामंतरेण नास्माकं पदवीदर्शको भवेत्
kinnarā ūcuḥ | rāmanātha bhavāraṇye vyādhivyāghrabhayānake | tvāmaṃtareṇa nāsmākaṃ padavīdarśako bhavet
เหล่ากินนรกล่าวว่า: “โอ้ พระรามนาถะ ในพงไพรแห่งภพนี้—น่าหวาดหวั่นด้วยเสือแห่งโรคภัย—หากปราศจากพระองค์ ก็ย่อมไม่มีผู้ใดชี้ทางให้พวกเราได้.”
Kinnaras
Tirtha: Rāmanātha at Setu
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rāmanātha (Śiva)
Scene: Kinnaras, half-celestial beings, stand at the edge of a dark symbolic forest; a striped ‘tiger of disease’ lurks; a radiant path opens toward the seaside Rāmanātha shrine, indicating the Lord as the way-shower.
FAQs
Without divine guidance, beings cannot find the liberating path; the Lord is the true ‘path-revealer’ through fear and suffering.
Rāmanātha at Setu (Rāmeśvaram), invoked as the guide out of the ‘forest’ of saṃsāra.
No explicit ritual; the verse emphasizes dependence on the Lord for guidance (guru-tattva/īśvara-anugraha).