Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
तस्याश्चरणविक्षेपैः सर्वमेकार्णवं जलम् । विक्षिप्तफेनपुञ्जौघैर्नृत्यन्तीव समं ततः
tasyāścaraṇavikṣepaiḥ sarvamekārṇavaṃ jalam | vikṣiptaphenapuñjaughairnṛtyantīva samaṃ tataḥ
তাইৰ চৰণৰ দ্ৰুত বিচলনে সকলো জল একেটা মহাৰ্ণৱৰ দৰে হৈ উঠিল। ছিটকি উঠা ফেনৰ ঢৌ-ঢালৰ প্ৰবাহে এনে লাগিল যেন পানী সকলোফালে নৃত্য কৰি আছে।
Narrator (contextual, within Revā Khaṇḍa narration)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied Purāṇic audience
Scene: The cow’s hooves strike and scatter foam; the entire expanse becomes a single cosmic ocean; white foam arcs like garlands; the waters appear to dance in rhythmic waves.
FAQs
Divine śakti can transform fearsome chaos (the deluge) into a controlled, auspicious order—seen here as the ‘dancing’ waters under the Goddess’s power.
Revā/Narmadā herself is glorified as a living tīrtha whose presence sanctifies and protects even amid cosmic dissolution imagery.
No explicit ritual is prescribed in this verse; it is a descriptive mahātmya passage praising the river-goddess’s power.