Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
किं चकार मुनींद्रोऽथ तन्मे विस्तरतो मुने । वद संसारसरणोद्भूतमायाप्रपीडितम् । कथामृतजलौघेन वितृषं कुरु मां प्रभो
kiṃ cakāra munīṃdro'tha tanme vistarato mune | vada saṃsārasaraṇodbhūtamāyāprapīḍitam | kathāmṛtajalaughena vitṛṣaṃ kuru māṃ prabho
پھر اُس مُنیوں کے سردار نے کیا کیا؟ اے مُنی، مجھے تفصیل سے بتائیے۔ میں سنسار کی راہوں سے اُٹھی ہوئی مایا کے فریب سے دبا ہوا ہوں؛ آپ اپنی امرت سی کتھا کے سیلاب سے میری پیاس بجھا دیجئے، اے محترم۔
Rājā (the king, interlocutor)
Listener: Sage (muni)
Scene: The king, visibly burdened, pleads with the sage: ‘I am oppressed by māyā from saṃsāra’s pathways; with the flood of nectar-like story, make me thirstless.’ Depict a symbolic stream of luminous ‘kathā’ flowing from the sage’s speech toward the king’s heart.
FAQs
Sacred listening and inquiry are presented as medicine for saṃsāra-born delusion, quenching inner thirst through dhārmic narrative.
No tīrtha is explicitly praised in this verse; it functions as a transition into the narrative set at Mandara within the larger Vastrāpatha Kṣetra māhātmya.
The implied practice is kathā-śravaṇa (hearing sacred discourse) with devotion and detailed inquiry.