Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 59
तस्यापि वेद्मि सर्वार्थं भर्तृयज्ञो यथा मुनिः । अस्मादत्रैव गच्छध्वं यदि मुक्तेः प्रयोजनम्
tasyāpi vedmi sarvārthaṃ bhartṛyajño yathā muniḥ | asmādatraiva gacchadhvaṃ yadi mukteḥ prayojanam
میں بھی اس کا پورا مفہوم جانتا ہوں، جیسے مُنی بھرتریَجْنَ جانتے ہیں۔ پس اگر تمہارا حقیقی مقصد موکش ہے تو فوراً یہاں سے روانہ ہو جاؤ۔
Unnamed narrator (contextual advisor within Sūta’s narration)
Tirtha: Pādukā-tīrtha (destination implied)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis
Scene: The narrator, with firm gesture, instructs sages to depart immediately for the mokṣa-oriented destination; the sages rise, gathering staffs and waterpots.
FAQs
Liberation is treated as the highest aim, and one should act decisively—going to the sanctified place without delay.
The broader passage belongs to the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (Nāgara Khaṇḍa) pilgrimage context, leading toward the Pādukā-related sacred spot.
No explicit ritual is detailed here; the prescription is immediate pilgrimage/action toward the moksha-granting sacred locus.