Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 4
एतद्विस्तरतस्तात कथयस्व ममानघ । शृण्वतश्च न तृप्तिर्मे कथामृतमनुत्तमम्
etadvistaratastāta kathayasva mamānagha | śṛṇvataśca na tṛptirme kathāmṛtamanuttamam
اے محترم، اے بے عیب! یہ بات مجھے تفصیل سے بیان کیجیے۔ میں سنتا رہتا ہوں پھر بھی سیر نہیں ہوتا؛ یہ بے مثال امرتِ حکایت مجھے کبھی آسودہ نہیں کرتا۔
Yudhiṣṭhira (to Mārkaṇḍeya)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mārkaṇḍeya (addressed as tāta/anagha)
Scene: Yudhiṣṭhira, eager and unsated, implores the sage to narrate in full detail; the atmosphere is intimate, reverent, and charged with devotional listening.
FAQs
Eager listening to sacred narrative (kathā-śravaṇa) is itself devotional discipline and a purifier of the heart.
Kuṇḍaleśvara is the subject whose māhātmya story is being requested in detail.
Śravaṇa (listening) and detailed kathā recitation are upheld as spiritually beneficial practices.