Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 16
तपतस्तस्य देवस्य स्वेदः समभवत्किल । तं गिरिं प्लावयामास स स्वेदो रुद्रसंभवः
tapatastasya devasya svedaḥ samabhavatkila | taṃ giriṃ plāvayāmāsa sa svedo rudrasaṃbhavaḥ
وبينما كان ذلك الإله منغمسًا في التقشّف، سال منه العَرَق حقًّا؛ وذلك العَرَق، المولود من رودرا، أغرق الجبل وعمّه الفيضان.
Manu
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) – Rudra-sveda-janmā (mythic epithet)
Type: kshetra
Listener: nṛpa (king) addressed in the narrative
Scene: A blazing ascetic Rudra on a mountain; from his body, luminous sweat streams pour down, swelling into torrents that inundate the slopes, foreshadowing a river’s birth.
FAQs
Purifying sacred waters are portrayed as arising from divine tapas—holiness is born from spiritual heat transformed into grace.
The narrative roots the Revā/Narmadā sanctity in a Shaiva origin linked to a sacred mountain (Ṛkṣaśaila).
None explicitly; the verse supplies the mythic etiology for later tīrtha practices such as snāna and pilgrimage.