Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 133
श्रुत्वा नः कथयामास कथां गोष्ठीषु पृच्छताम् । तव चास्माभिरधुना सर्वमेतदुदीरितम्
śrutvā naḥ kathayāmāsa kathāṃ goṣṭhīṣu pṛcchatām | tava cāsmābhiradhunā sarvametadudīritam
یہ سن کر، جب ہم نے اپنی مجلسوں میں پوچھا تو اس نے ہمیں یہ حکایت سنائی؛ اور اب ہم نے یہ سب کچھ تم سے بھی بیان کر دیا ہے۔
Dvijāḥ (the narrating Brāhmaṇas/sages)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (as the subject of narration)
Type: kshetra
Listener: The immediate addressee in the text (unnamed here) and the broader audience
Scene: Nārada, after hearing Śiva-Devī’s dialogue, sits among brāhmaṇas in a village/temple courtyard; they ask, he narrates; later the brāhmaṇas relay the same to another listener, forming a chain of sacred memory.
FAQs
Sacred knowledge is preserved through listening, inquiry, and communal recitation—kathā shared in assemblies.
Prabhāsakṣetra remains the underlying sacred context of the narrated dialogue.
None explicitly; the implied practice is śravaṇa (hearing) and kathā-kīrtana (narration/recitation).