Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 6
उपरिष्टाद्बकैर्हंसैर्भ्रममाणैः समंततः । आटिभिर्मद्गुभिश्चैव समन्ताज्जलपक्षिभिः
upariṣṭādbakairhaṃsairbhramamāṇaiḥ samaṃtataḥ | āṭibhirmadgubhiścaiva samantājjalapakṣibhiḥ
اوپر اور چاروں طرف بگلے اور ہنس چکر لگاتے پھر رہے تھے؛ اور آٹی پرندے اور مدگو وغیرہ دیگر آبی پرندے بھی ہر سمت میں حرکت کر رہے تھے۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa in a māhātmya frame)
Type: sangam
Scene: A wide sacred waterscape: cranes and swans wheel overhead; smaller aquatic birds skim and dive; the surface glitters, suggesting a tīrtha alive with movement and sound.
FAQs
A tīrtha is recognized not only by doctrine but by auspicious atmosphere—nature itself appears harmonious and sanctified.
The verse sets the scene for a riverine tīrtha/āśrama landscape in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya, without naming the site in this line alone.
None explicitly; it is a descriptive marker of a sacred place.