Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 53
व्यास उवाच । कुतः समागतो ब्रह्मन्सांप्रतं मुनिसत्तमः । परमानंदसंदोहः समभूत्सांप्रतं तव
vyāsa uvāca | kutaḥ samāgato brahmansāṃprataṃ munisattamaḥ | paramānaṃdasaṃdohaḥ samabhūtsāṃprataṃ tava
Vyāsa nói: “Này Brāhmaṇa, bậc hiền thánh tối thượng, nay ngài từ đâu đến? Vì cớ gì lúc này nơi ngài lại dâng trào một biển hỷ lạc tối thượng như thế?”
Vyāsa (Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā (implied)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka-group (implied)
Scene: Vyāsa speaks directly, asking the returning sage where he has come from and why a surge of supreme bliss shines in him; the scene is calm, scholarly, and intimate.
FAQs
In Purāṇic discourse, the saint’s joy is interrogated as a dhārmic sign—pointing to a sacred encounter or tīrtha-realization.
Contextually, Ayodhyā and its tīrthas—since the question concerns the source of Agastya’s extraordinary bliss.
None; it introduces inquiry that will elicit the tīrtha’s māhātmya and associated practices.