Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 32
अर्जुन उवाच । क्व कलापं च द्ग्रामं कथं शक्यं बिलेन च । कथं स्कंदप्रसादः स्यादेतन्मे ब्रूहि नारद
arjuna uvāca | kva kalāpaṃ ca dgrāmaṃ kathaṃ śakyaṃ bilena ca | kathaṃ skaṃdaprasādaḥ syādetanme brūhi nārada
ارجن نے کہا: “وہ کَلاپ گاؤں کہاں ہے، اور غار کے راستے سے وہاں کیسے پہنچا جا سکتا ہے؟ اور اسکند کا پرساد کیسے حاصل ہو؟ اے نارَد! یہ مجھے بتائیے۔”
Arjuna
Tirtha: Kalāpa/Kalāpaka (hidden settlement)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Nārada
Scene: Arjuna, attentive and reverent, questions sage Nārada seated in a Himalayan hermitage setting; behind them, a stylized map-like landscape shows Kedāra, a cave entrance, and a distant hidden valley labeled Kalāpa.
FAQs
A sincere seeker asks both for geography (where/how) and theology (how grace is gained)—uniting yātrā with bhakti.
Kalāpa-grāma is introduced as a sacred destination connected to the Kedāra-region narrative.
Not yet; Arjuna inquires about the means to obtain Skanda’s prasāda, which is answered in following verses.