Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 82
सुश्रांतः क्षुत्पिपासार्तो निशीथे तमसावृते । गर्तायां पतितोऽकस्मात्पूर्णायां पयसा नृपः
suśrāṃtaḥ kṣutpipāsārto niśīthe tamasāvṛte | gartāyāṃ patito'kasmātpūrṇāyāṃ payasā nṛpaḥ
Der König, völlig erschöpft und von Hunger und Durst gequält, stürzte in der tiefen, von Dunkel umhüllten Nacht plötzlich in eine Grube, die mit Wasser gefüllt war.
Narrator (exact speaker not stated in excerpt)
Tirtha: Garta-tīrtha (pit/kund within Camatkārapura; descriptive name)
Type: kund
Listener: Brāhmaṇa audience (continued address context)
Scene: Midnight scene: dense darkness, the king stumbling from exhaustion, then falling into a circular pit brimming with water; attendants absent or distant; moon obscured; the water faintly glows, hinting sanctity.
FAQs
Even unintended contact with a sacred place can become the doorway to purification when a tīrtha’s power is present.
The incident occurs in the Camatkārapura-kṣetra context; the pit of water functions as the tīrtha medium in the narrative.
No explicit prescription—this verse narrates an accidental immersion associated with tīrtha power.