Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
जपहोमपरो भक्त्या क्षणं ध्यात्वा च तिष्ठति । ज्वलमानात्तु कपिला तावत्कुण्डात्समुत्थिता
japahomaparo bhaktyā kṣaṇaṃ dhyātvā ca tiṣṭhati | jvalamānāttu kapilā tāvatkuṇḍātsamutthitā
«Tout entier, avec dévotion, au japa et au homa, il s’arrêta un instant et médita. Alors Kapilā, flamboyante de splendeur, s’éleva aussitôt du kuṇḍa, la fosse sacrée.»
Mārkaṇḍeya (narrating)
Tirtha: Kapilā Tīrtha
Type: kund
Listener: Rājā (Bhārata)
Scene: A blazing sacrificial altar: Brahmā (or a great sage-figure) performing homa, hands poised; from the fire-pit rises Kapilā, radiant and cow-formed, emerging in a burst of golden-red light; attendants recoil in awe.
FAQs
Devotional discipline—japa, homa, and meditation—invites divine manifestation and sanctifies space into a tīrtha.
Kapilā-tīrtha’s sanctity is rooted in the manifestation of Kapilā from a sacrificial kuṇḍa, forming the tīrtha’s origin story.
Japa (mantra recitation), homa (fire offering), and dhyāna (meditation) are explicitly referenced as the devotional context.