ॐ नमो विष्णुरूपाय तीर्थनाथाय ते नमः । सान्निध्यं कुरु मे देव समुद्र लवणाम्भसि । इत्यामन्त्रणमन्त्रः
oṃ namo viṣṇurūpāya tīrthanāthāya te namaḥ | sānnidhyaṃ kuru me deva samudra lavaṇāmbhasi | ityāmantraṇamantraḥ
«Oṁ — hommage à Toi, de la forme de Viṣṇu; hommage à Toi, Seigneur des tīrtha. Ô Dieu, Océan aux eaux salées, accorde-moi Ta présence.» Tel est le mantra d’invocation.
Śiva (Śaṅkara)
Tirtha: Samudra (Lavaṇāmbhas)
Type: ghat
Scene: A devotee stands at the shoreline reciting ‘Oṁ namo viṣṇurūpāya…’, with the ocean depicted as a vast divine form—subtle Viṣṇu iconography emerging from waves—while a halo of presence surrounds the water.
Sacred waters are approached as divine, and mantra-invocation sanctifies the act of bathing as communion with the tīrtha.
The Ocean (Samudra), honored as “Tīrthanātha,” the lordly source of tīrtha-power.
Recite the āmantraṇa-mantra to invoke the ocean’s sānnidhya before performing the ritual bath.