Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 20
तस्य पुत्रः सुविख्यातः सुवर्चा इति विश्रुतः । एको बभूव वृद्धत्वे कथंचिद्द्विजसत्तमाः
tasya putraḥ suvikhyātaḥ suvarcā iti viśrutaḥ | eko babhūva vṛddhatve kathaṃciddvijasattamāḥ
اس کا بیٹا بہت نامور تھا، ‘سُوَورچا’ کے نام سے مشہور؛ اور بادشاہ کے بڑھاپے میں بھی کسی طرح وہ اکلوتا بیٹا پیدا ہوا—اے بہترینِ دِویجوں۔
Sūta
Tirtha: Gomukha (contextual)
Type: tirtha
Listener: ṛṣayaḥ
Scene: An aged king and queen receive or behold their famed son Suvarcā—an only child—suggesting a hard-won boon; sages narrate the rarity and renown of the birth.
FAQs
Purāṇic tīrtha narratives often root sacred geography in human lineage and life-events, showing how personal destiny intersects with holy places.
The same setting of Ambarīṣa’s story that culminates in the Gomukha-tīrtha māhātmya.
None in this verse; it provides background for the tīrtha’s origin account.