Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 1
। अतिथिरुवाच । एतद्वः सर्वमाख्यातं यथा मे पिंगला गुरुः । संजाता कुररो जातो यथा तत्प्रवदान्यहम्
| atithiruvāca | etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātaṃ yathā me piṃgalā guruḥ | saṃjātā kuraro jāto yathā tatpravadānyaham
اَتِتھی نے کہا: “میں نے تمہیں یہ سب سنا دیا کہ پِنگلا کیسے میری گرو بنی۔ اب میں تمہیں بیان کروں گا کہ کُرَر (مچھلی پکڑنے والا باز) کیسے پیدا ہوا، اور یہ واقعہ کیسے پیش آیا۔”
Atithi
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (continuing frame)
Type: kshetra
Listener: A group of hearers addressed as ‘voḥ’ (you all) within the internal narrative
Scene: Atithi, as storyteller, addresses listeners after finishing Piṅgalā’s lesson; he gestures toward the sky/river where an osprey (kurara) appears, foreshadowing the next tale.
FAQs
Spiritual instruction is carried through exemplary stories; the narrator signals a new moral episode following Piṅgalā’s teaching.
The narrative belongs to the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya within Nāgara-khaṇḍa.
None in this verse; it functions as a narrative transition.