Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 34
गंगोवाच । अपि दौर्भाग्ययुक्ताऽहं भार्या जाताऽस्मि शूलिनः । तस्मादेकं दिनं देहि क्रीडनार्थमनेन तु
gaṃgovāca | api daurbhāgyayuktā'haṃ bhāryā jātā'smi śūlinaḥ | tasmādekaṃ dinaṃ dehi krīḍanārthamanena tu
গঙ্গাই ক’লে: যদিও মই দুৰ্ভাগ্যচিহ্নিত, তথাপি মই শূলধাৰী প্ৰভুৰ পত্নী হৈছোঁ। সেয়ে মোক কেৱল এটা দিন দিয়া, যাতে মই তেওঁৰ সৈতে ক্ৰীড়া কৰিব পাৰোঁ।
Gaṅgā
Tirtha: Śiva-kuṇḍa / Śivagaṅgā (contextual)
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Gaṅgā, personified as a radiant river-goddess, speaks with humility, requesting a single day to sport with the trident-bearing Śiva.
FAQs
Even divine beings express humility; sacred narratives frame devotion and intimacy with Śiva as a source of auspiciousness.
The context leads into the glorification of Śivagaṅgā-kuṇḍa, a tīrtha described in the Arbudakhaṇḍa.
No direct ritual is prescribed in this verse; it sets up the tīrtha’s origin narrative.