Kurukshetra, Pṛthūdaka Tīrtha, and the Marriage of Saṃvaraṇa with Tapatī
पुलस्त्य उवाच एतत्ते कथयिष्यामि पार्वत्याः संभवं मुने शृणुष्वावहितो भूत्वा स्कन्दोत्पत्तिं च शाश्वतीम्
pulastya uvāca etatte kathayiṣyāmi pārvatyāḥ saṃbhavaṃ mune śṛṇuṣvāvahito bhūtvā skandotpattiṃ ca śāśvatīm
プラスタヤ(Pulastya)は言った。「おお聖仙よ、私はパールヴァティー(Pārvatī)の起源を汝に語ろう。心を留めて聴け。さらに、スカンダ(Skanda)誕生の永遠の物語をも語り明かそう。」
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The verse establishes śravaṇa (attentive listening) as the proper mode for receiving sacred history, implying that spiritual knowledge is transmitted through disciplined hearing and faithful narration.
Primarily Vamśānucarita/Carita (narrative of divine personages and their deeds), introducing a genealogical-mythic account centered on Pārvatī and Skanda rather than cosmogenesis.
By calling Skanda’s birth “śāśvatī,” the text frames the myth not as mere event-history but as an archetypal, ever-relevant pattern of divine manifestation and restoration of cosmic order.