Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 72
न खल्वयमृतोंऽडस्थ इति स्नेहादभाषत । तदा प्रभृति लोकेयं मार्तंड इति चोच्यते
na khalvayamṛtoṃ'ḍastha iti snehādabhāṣata | tadā prabhṛti lokeyaṃ mārtaṃḍa iti cocyate
Out of affection she said, “Surely he is not dead within the egg.” From that time onward, in this world he came to be known as Mārtaṇḍa.
Skanda (deduced; Kāśīkhaṇḍa typically Skanda to Agastya)
Scene: A motherly figure speaks with tender certainty toward a luminous egg (a cosmic hiraṇyāṇḍa motif), while a faint solar glow begins to emerge—signaling the naming of Mārtaṇḍa.
FAQs
Affection and right perception transform fear into auspicious naming; divine realities are affirmed through loving recognition.
The broader frame is the Kāśīkhaṇḍa (glory of Kāśī), though this verse itself is a mythic-etiological aside rather than a direct tīrtha description.
None in this verse.