Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 55
एतच्च तव वीर्यं तु पतितं वेदिमध्यगम् । कामार्तस्य मया दृष्टं नैतद्व्यर्थं भविष्यति
etacca tava vīryaṃ tu patitaṃ vedimadhyagam | kāmārtasya mayā dṛṣṭaṃ naitadvyarthaṃ bhaviṣyati
Et ta vigueur, ta semence, est tombée au milieu de l’autel. Je l’ai vue lorsque tu étais tourmenté par le désir ; elle ne sera pas vaine.
Unspecified (contextual narrator/authority voice within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya)
Type: kshetra
Listener: brāhmaṇa (addressed as 'tava')
Scene: A close view of the altar’s center where the fallen seed is indicated symbolically (not explicit), while a seer declares it will bear purposeful fruit; the brāhmaṇa appears conflicted between shame and awe.
FAQs
Even a morally troubled moment can be redirected by divine order into a meaningful outcome within the sacred-ritual sphere.
The verse highlights a ritual locus (the vedi/altar) rather than naming a geographic tīrtha.
No prescription; it situates the event within a sacrificial/altar context (vedimadhya).