Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
मदीयो भूपते देह ईदृगासीद्यथा तव । तत्र स्नातस्य सद्योऽथ जात ईदृक्पुनः प्रभो
madīyo bhūpate deha īdṛgāsīdyathā tava | tatra snātasya sadyo'tha jāta īdṛkpunaḥ prabho
হে ৰাজন, মোৰ নিজৰ দেহো কেতিয়াবা তোমাৰ দেহৰ দৰে আছিল। কিন্তু তাত স্নান কৰোঁতেই, হে প্ৰভু, মই তৎক্ষণাৎ পুনৰ এই ৰূপত পুনৰুদ্ধাৰ হ’লোঁ।
Kārpaṭika
Tirtha: Nāgara-kṣetra tīrtha (specific snāna-sthāna unnamed here)
Type: kshetra
Listener: King (Rājā)
Scene: A formerly afflicted ascetic-like figure (Kārpaṭika) stands by a sacred waterbody, narrating to a king; his body appears renewed after bathing, with a subtle aura of purity.
FAQs
Faith supported by lived testimony turns the mind from hopelessness to dharmic action; tīrtha-snānā is upheld as transformative grace.
The same curative tīrtha referenced earlier (“sarvavyādhi-kṣayāvaha”) is glorified through the speaker’s personal healing account.
Snāna (ritual bathing) at the tīrtha is explicitly prescribed and presented as immediately efficacious.
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