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
مجھے یہ سب کچھ پوری طرح بیان کیجیے، یقیناً، جب میں رِشیوں کی سنگت میں بیٹھا ہوں—مَانڈویہ کے بارے میں اور اس مقدّس تیرتھ کی عظمت کے بارے میں، محض تجسّس کے سبب۔
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.