Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 19
सप्तर्षय इति श्रेष्ठां यो जपेत्तु समाहितः । ऋचं रोगविनाशाय स रोगैः परि मुच्यते
saptarṣaya iti śreṣṭhāṃ yo japettu samāhitaḥ | ṛcaṃ rogavināśāya sa rogaiḥ pari mucyate
Wer, mit gesammelt ruhigem Geist, den vortrefflichen ṛc rezitiert, der mit „saptarṣayaḥ …“ beginnt, zur Vernichtung von Krankheit, wird gänzlich von Leiden befreit.
Skanda (deduced from tīrthamāhātmya instructional style within Skanda Purāṇa)
Scene: A sick devotee sits near the tirtha, eyes closed in concentration, reciting the ṛc beginning ‘saptarṣayaḥ’; a subtle aura of the Seven Sages appears, and the body regains vitality.
FAQs
Focused recitation (samādhāna in japa) at a sacred place is depicted as restoring wholeness and removing affliction.
The tīrtha praised in Adhyāya 36 of the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya; the excerpt does not name it.
Japa of a Vedic ṛc beginning “saptarṣayaḥ …” with the intention of destroying disease.