Vamana Purana — Kuru's Consecration, Shloka 14
Kuru’s Consecration and the Sanctification of Samantapañcaka (Kurukshetra)
सुदर्शनस्य जननीं ह्वन्दं कृत्वा सुविस्तरम् स्थितां भगवतीं कूले तीर्थकोटिभिराप्लुताम्
sudarśanasya jananīṃ hvandaṃ kṛtvā suvistaram sthitāṃ bhagavatīṃ kūle tīrthakoṭibhirāplutām
He beheld the Blessed Goddess, the mother of Sudarśana, who had formed a broad expanse of water, standing upon the bank, filled with crores of tīrthas.
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FAQs
The holiness of a tīrtha is portrayed as concentrated and communal—‘crores of tīrthas’ suggests layered sanctity accrued through long practice. Ethically, it encourages humility: one approaches a place shaped by countless prior acts of devotion.
This is tīrtha-māhātmya material serving dharma/ācāra instruction (how and where merit is gained). It sits outside the core five-lakṣaṇa themes but is a standard Purāṇic function: mapping sacred space to guide religious life.
Linking Sarasvatī to Sudarśana associates the river’s purifying flow with the chakra’s function: cutting ignorance and protecting dharma. The ‘broad expanse’ can also symbolize the wideness of sacred knowledge (vidyā) that Sarasvatī embodies.