नर्मदायां सरस्वत्यां गौतम्यां सिंहगे गुरौ । स्नात्वा यत्फलमाप्येत धर्मकूपे तदाप्नुयात्
narmadāyāṃ sarasvatyāṃ gautamyāṃ siṃhage gurau | snātvā yatphalamāpyeta dharmakūpe tadāpnuyāt
أيّ ثوابٍ يُنال بالاغتسال في نهر «نرمدا» (Narmadā) أو «ساراسفتي» (Sarasvatī) أو «غاوتَمي» (Gautamī) أو في «سِمْهَغِه» (Siṃhage) أو «غورو» (Guru)، فإن ذلك الثواب بعينه يُنال في «دهرما-كوبا» (Dharma-kūpa).
Skanda
Tirtha: Dharma-kūpa
Type: kund
Listener: Audience of the tīrtha enumeration (unspecified)
Scene: A stone-lined sacred well in Kāśī with a small platform; devotees draw water with a brass pot and pour it over their heads; above the well appear faint personifications of Narmadā, Sarasvatī, and Gautamī as river goddesses blessing the scene; the well glows as if bottomless.
Dharma-kūpa in Kāśī is praised as a concentrated locus of tīrtha-power, equating many famed river baths.
Dharma-kūpa (the sacred well/tīrtha in Kāśī).
Snāna (bathing) at Dharma-kūpa.