Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 7
मायापुरीश्रिता ये च ये च कान्तीनिवासिनः । एते चान्ये च मुनयः सशिष्या बहवोऽमलाः
māyāpurīśritā ye ca ye ca kāntīnivāsinaḥ | ete cānye ca munayaḥ saśiṣyā bahavo'malāḥ
جو مایاپُری کی شَرَن میں آئے تھے اور جو کانتی میں رہتے تھے—یہ اور بہت سے دیگر بے داغ رِشی، اپنے شِشیوں سمیت، وہاں موجود تھے۔
Sūta (assembly-description context)
Tirtha: Māyāpurī; Kāntī
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Stainless sages with their disciples arrive in orderly groups, carrying manuscripts and waterpots; the scene highlights teacher-disciple lines converging like tributaries into a single river of tradition.
FAQs
Purity of mind and disciplined lineage (sages with disciples) are highlighted as the proper vessel for receiving a māhātmya.
Māyāpurī and Kāntī are referenced as recognized sacred residences of sages within the Purāṇic sacred map.
No ritual is prescribed here; the verse emphasizes the presence of many pure sages with their disciples.