Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
पूर्वं भगवता तेन ब्रह्मणा लोक कर्तृणा । सृष्टिं कृत्वा च विस्तीर्णां यथोक्तं च चतुर्विधाम्
pūrvaṃ bhagavatā tena brahmaṇā loka kartṛṇā | sṛṣṭiṃ kṛtvā ca vistīrṇāṃ yathoktaṃ ca caturvidhām
پہلے وہ بھگوان برہما—عالموں کے خالق—نے جیسا کہا گیا تھا ویسا ہی، چار گونہ ترتیب کے مطابق، وسیع کائنات کی سृष्टی رچ دی۔
Sūta (continuing narration)
Tirtha: Rūpa-tīrtha (origin narrative lead-in)
Type: kund
Listener: Śaunaka and sages (implied)
Scene: Brahmā, four-faced, seated on a lotus, surveys the newly expanded creation arranged in fourfold categories; the cosmos spreads outward like concentric realms, hinting that a specific tīrtha will emerge from this divine planning.
FAQs
Sacred places are framed within cosmic order: tīrtha-māhātmyas often root their power in primordial, dharma-governed creation.
The chapter context points toward Rūpa-tīrtha, though this verse itself sets the mythic preface with Brahmā.
None explicitly in this verse.