Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 31
Gṛhastha-nitya-karman: Śauca, Sandhyā-vidhi, Pañca-yajña, and Āśrama-krama
तटं प्रक्षाल्य दर्भाश्च विन्यस्य प्रविशेज्जलम् । प्रणम्य तत्र तीर्थानि आवाह्य रविमंडलात् ॥ ३१ ॥
taṭaṃ prakṣālya darbhāśca vinyasya praviśejjalam | praṇamya tatra tīrthāni āvāhya ravimaṃḍalāt || 31 ||
After washing the riverbank and placing darbha grass there, one should enter the water. Having bowed down, one should then invoke the sacred tīrthas there, calling them forth from the orb of the Sun.
Narada (teaching in a dharma/ācāra context, traditionally within Narada–Sanatkumara dialogue framing)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It presents tīrtha-snānā as a sanctified act: physical cleansing (bank and entry into water) is joined with inner reverence (praṇāma) and mantra-based invocation of sacred tīrthas, making the bath a consciously consecrated rite.
Bhakti is expressed through humility and reverence—bowing before entering and treating the waters as divine tīrthas to be invoked, not merely used—turning a routine act into worshipful purification.
It reflects Kalpa (ritual procedure): preparing the site, placing darbha as a ritual implement, performing praṇāma, and doing āvāhana (invocation) as a formal step in snāna-vidhi.