Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
जपहोमपरो भक्त्या क्षणं ध्यात्वा च तिष्ठति । ज्वलमानात्तु कपिला तावत्कुण्डात्समुत्थिता
japahomaparo bhaktyā kṣaṇaṃ dhyātvā ca tiṣṭhati | jvalamānāttu kapilā tāvatkuṇḍātsamutthitā
ভক্তিভাৱে জপ-হোমত নিমগ্ন হৈ তেওঁ ক্ষণেক থমকি ধ্যান কৰিলে। তেতিয়াই জ্বলন্ত তেজে দীপ্ত কপিলা তৎক্ষণাৎ কুণ্ডৰ পৰা উঠি আহিল।
Mārkaṇḍeya (narrating)
Tirtha: Kapilā Tīrtha
Type: kund
Listener: Rājā (Bhārata)
Scene: A blazing sacrificial altar: Brahmā (or a great sage-figure) performing homa, hands poised; from the fire-pit rises Kapilā, radiant and cow-formed, emerging in a burst of golden-red light; attendants recoil in awe.
FAQs
Devotional discipline—japa, homa, and meditation—invites divine manifestation and sanctifies space into a tīrtha.
Kapilā-tīrtha’s sanctity is rooted in the manifestation of Kapilā from a sacrificial kuṇḍa, forming the tīrtha’s origin story.
Japa (mantra recitation), homa (fire offering), and dhyāna (meditation) are explicitly referenced as the devotional context.