Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 47
ज्ञानशक्तिः सामवेदस्तृतीयसवनं तथा । शिवश्चेति तृतीयाया रेखायाश्चाधिदेवता
jñānaśaktiḥ sāmavedastṛtīyasavanaṃ tathā | śivaśceti tṛtīyāyā rekhāyāścādhidevatā
Die Kraft der Erkenntnis, die Sāmaveda und das dritte Savana ebenso; und Śiva ist die waltende Gottheit der dritten Linie.
Śrī Rudra (Śiva)
Scene: Evening/late-day rite: third rekhā illuminated; a singer-priest chanting Sāmaveda with a vīṇā nearby; jñāna-śakti depicted as a radiant lamp at the brow; Śiva above as tranquil, blessing the completion of the triad.
FAQs
The culmination of the Tripuṇḍra is knowledge—Śiva presides as the source of jñāna that liberates.
No holy site is mentioned; this verse continues the symbolic theology of the Tripuṇḍra lines.
Contemplate Śiva as the presiding deity of the third Tripuṇḍra line, associated with jñānaśakti, Sāmaveda, and the third savana.