Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 14
यानि सन्तीह तीर्थानि पुण्यानि नृपसत्तम । यानि यानीह तीर्थानि नर्मदायास्तटद्वये
yāni santīha tīrthāni puṇyāni nṛpasattama | yāni yānīha tīrthāni narmadāyāstaṭadvaye
Hỡi bậc vương giả tối thượng, mọi tīrtha hiện hữu nơi đây—thanh tịnh và ban phước đức—và mọi tīrtha hiện hữu nơi đây trên cả hai bờ sông Narmadā…
Vāyu (deduced)
Tirtha: Revā/Narmadā tīrthas (ubhayataṭa)
Type: river
Listener: A king (nṛpasattama addressed)
Scene: A panoramic ‘map-scene’ of the Narmadā winding through forests and settlements, with many marked tīrthas on both banks—ghats, kundas, small shrines—pilgrims bathing and offering lamps.
FAQs
The Narmadā’s entire riverine landscape—both banks—is portrayed as saturated with puṇya through countless tīrthas.
Not one single ford; the verse praises the totality of Narmadā’s tīrthas spread along both riverbanks.
No explicit rite is stated; the implied practice is tīrtha-yātrā—pilgrimage along the Narmadā banks.