Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 53
व्यास उवाच । कुतः समागतो ब्रह्मन्सांप्रतं मुनिसत्तमः । परमानंदसंदोहः समभूत्सांप्रतं तव
vyāsa uvāca | kutaḥ samāgato brahmansāṃprataṃ munisattamaḥ | paramānaṃdasaṃdohaḥ samabhūtsāṃprataṃ tava
พระวยาสะตรัสว่า “ดูก่อนพราหมณ์ ผู้เป็นฤๅษีเลิศ ท่านเพิ่งมาจากที่ใดเล่า? ไฉนในกาลนี้กระแสปรมานันทะอันยิ่งใหญ่จึงบังเกิดแก่ท่าน?”
Vyāsa (Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā (implied)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka-group (implied)
Scene: Vyāsa speaks directly, asking the returning sage where he has come from and why a surge of supreme bliss shines in him; the scene is calm, scholarly, and intimate.
FAQs
In Purāṇic discourse, the saint’s joy is interrogated as a dhārmic sign—pointing to a sacred encounter or tīrtha-realization.
Contextually, Ayodhyā and its tīrthas—since the question concerns the source of Agastya’s extraordinary bliss.
None; it introduces inquiry that will elicit the tīrtha’s māhātmya and associated practices.