Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 53
ऊचुस्ते विस्मिताः सर्वे स्वप्नोऽयं वाथ विभ्रमः । ससंभ्रमाः समुत्थाय ददृशुः सत्यमंदिरम्
ūcuste vismitāḥ sarve svapno'yaṃ vātha vibhramaḥ | sasaṃbhramāḥ samutthāya dadṛśuḥ satyamaṃdiram
سب حیران ہو کر بولے، “یہ خواب ہے یا کوئی مایا کا فریب؟” پھر گھبراہٹ کے ساتھ اٹھ کر انہوں نے سچ کا مندر (ستیہ مندر) دیکھ لیا۔
Narrator (contextual; likely Sūta/Vyāsa-style narration within the Māhātmya)
Tirtha: Satyamandira (Dharmāraṇya)
Type: ghat
Scene: Pilgrims, startled and wide-eyed, point toward a newly-seen temple emerging from the forest—Satyamandira—its doorway radiant, as if reality itself has taken architectural form.
FAQs
Doubt gives way to direct darśana; sacred places convert uncertainty into lived certainty of the divine.
Dharmāraṇya, where a ‘true shrine’ is revealed as the culmination of the wondrous experience.
None explicitly; the implied act is darśana—going forth and beholding the shrine.