Shloka 43
Kuru's Consecration — Kuru’s Consecration and the Sanctification of Samantapañcaka (Kurukshetra)
तस्यैव मध्ये बहुपुण्य उक्तः पृथूदकः पापहरः शिवश्च पुण्या नदी प्राङ्मुखतां प्रयाता यत्रौघयुक्तस्य शुभा जताढ्या
tasyaiva madhye bahupuṇya uktaḥ pṛthūdakaḥ pāpaharaḥ śivaśca puṇyā nadī prāṅmukhatāṃ prayātā yatraughayuktasya śubhā jatāḍhyā
その聖域のまさに中央において、プṛトゥーダカ（Pṛthūdaka）は大いなる功徳を具え、罪を滅し吉祥をもたらすものと宣言される。そこには東に面して流れる聖なる河があり、その流れは瑞相に満ち、ジャター（結髪・もつれ髪）に富む、すなわち苦行者・シヴァ的聖性と結びつく。
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FAQs
The verse frames sacred waters as instruments of inner and outer purification, but also as carriers of 'śiva'—auspiciousness—implying that purity is not merely absence of sin but the cultivation of благоприятность/auspicious disposition aligned with dharma.
As with many Purāṇic māhātmyas, it sits outside the strict five topics (sarga etc.) and functions as a dharma-oriented appendix within narrative tradition—preserving pilgrimage geography and its salvific theology.
The eastward orientation (prāṅmukhatā) is a ritual-theological marker (east = illumination, beginnings, sāttvika direction). 'Jaṭāḍhyā' evokes Śiva’s ascetic power, suggesting that the river embodies tapas and restraint, not just physical water.