Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 22
अथ क्षणेन शुश्राव स गीतं मधुरध्वनि । पठतां नन्दिवृद्धानां तथा शब्दं मनोहरम्
atha kṣaṇena śuśrāva sa gītaṃ madhuradhvani | paṭhatāṃ nandivṛddhānāṃ tathā śabdaṃ manoharam
پھر ایک ہی لمحے میں اس نے شیریں نغمہ سنا، اور نندی وِردھوں کی تلاوت جیسی دلکش آواز بھی سنائی دی۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Nāgara-khaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A traveler pauses as an unseen choir begins—sweet, floating melody and rhythmic recitation, as if elder attendants chant in the air; the landscape feels twilight-liminal.
FAQs
Sacred sound—song and recitation—signals the nearness of unseen powers and a shift from despair to revelation.
Not named in this verse; the auditory signs foreshadow the tīrtha-focused disclosure that follows.
Implicit emphasis on pāṭha (recitation) and gīta (devotional singing), though no explicit injunction is given.