Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 28
तेन पूर्वमपि प्रायस्तत्क्षेत्रमवलोकितम् । दुर्योधनसमायुक्तो यदा तत्र समागतः
tena pūrvamapi prāyastatkṣetramavalokitam | duryodhanasamāyukto yadā tatra samāgataḥ
اس سے پہلے بھی وہ زیادہ تر اس کھیتر کو دیکھ چکا تھا؛ اور جب وہ دُریودھن کے ساتھ وہاں پہنچا تو پھر اسی مقدّس سرزمین میں داخل ہوا۔
Purāṇic narrator (contextual; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa continuing the Tīrthamāhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Arjuneśvara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience/inquirer (unspecified)
Scene: A flashback-like depiction: Arjuna recalling an earlier visit to the same sacred field, with Duryodhana present; the landscape remains constant, emphasizing the timelessness of the kṣetra.
FAQs
Repeated darśana (beholding) of a kṣetra is itself meritorious; holy places draw even great warriors back again and again.
A named kṣetra within Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya context (the passage proceeds toward Arjuneśvara and a Vaiṣṇava prāsāda), indicating a locally celebrated tīrtha-kṣetra.
No explicit rite here; the emphasis is on arrival and kṣetra-darśana as a sacred act.