Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 13
अत्रिश्चैव वसिष्ठश्च कश्यपः सुमहातपाः । भरद्वाजस्तथा चान्यो गौतमः संशितव्रतः । कौशिको जमदग्निश्च तथैवारुंधती सती
atriścaiva vasiṣṭhaśca kaśyapaḥ sumahātapāḥ | bharadvājastathā cānyo gautamaḥ saṃśitavrataḥ | kauśiko jamadagniśca tathaivāruṃdhatī satī
คือ อตริและวสิษฐะ กับกัศยปผู้ทรงตบะยิ่ง; ภรทวาชะ และโคตมผู้มั่นในพรต; เกาศิกะและชามทัคนิ พร้อมทั้งอรุนธตีผู้เป็นสตรีผู้บริสุทธิ์
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator; unspecified in snippet)
Scene: A formal roll-call tableau: the sages seated or standing in a semicircle, each with distinctive attributes—Vasiṣṭha serene, Viśvāmitra intense, Jamadagni austere—Arundhatī beside Vasiṣṭha, all marked by tapas and dignity despite hunger.
FAQs
True spiritual authority is marked by tapas (austerity) and saṃyama (disciplined vows), embodied by the revered ṛṣis.
No single tīrtha is named in this verse; it identifies the sages central to the ensuing tīrtha-māhātmya episode.
None explicitly; the verse functions as an identification of the principal figures.