Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3
सूत उवाच । यानि प्रोक्तानि तीर्थानि भवद्भिर्द्विजसत्तमाः । अष्टषष्टिप्रमाणानि तथा क्षेत्राणि भूतले
sūta uvāca | yāni proktāni tīrthāni bhavadbhirdvijasattamāḥ | aṣṭaṣaṣṭipramāṇāni tathā kṣetrāṇi bhūtale
สูตะกล่าวว่า “โอ ท่านผู้ประเสริฐในหมู่ทวิชะ ทั้งหลาย ตีรถะที่ท่านทั้งปวงได้กล่าวไว้แล้ว และเขตศักดิ์สิทธิ์บนพื้นพิภพซึ่งมีจำนวนหกสิบแปดนั้น—”
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa/related Sūta narrator figure)
Tirtha: Sixty-eight kṣetras (recalled set)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis
Scene: Sūta begins his response, gesturing to a manuscript or counting beads as if preparing a list; sages listen attentively in a forest assembly.
FAQs
Purāṇic teaching is transmitted through dialogue: the narrator anchors pilgrimage knowledge in an authoritative count and tradition of remembrance.
No single tīrtha yet; the verse sets up the topic of the sixty-eight kṣetras.
None in this verse; it is introductory narration.