Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 52
सरसा मानसेनात्र पूर्वं तप्तं महातपः । अतस्तु मानसं तीर्थं जने ख्यातिमिदं गतम्
sarasā mānasenātra pūrvaṃ taptaṃ mahātapaḥ | atastu mānasaṃ tīrthaṃ jane khyātimidaṃ gatam
ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಪುರಾತನಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಸರಸಾ ಮತ್ತು ಮಾನಸಾ ಮಹಾತಪಸ್ಸನ್ನು ಆಚರಿಸಿದರು; ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ಇದು ಜನರಲ್ಲಿ ‘ಮಾನಸತೀರ್ಥ’ವೆಂದು ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧಿಯಾಯಿತು.
Skanda (deduced, Kāśī Khaṇḍa context: Skanda to Agastya)
Tirtha: Mānasatīrtha
Type: kund
Scene: Two ascetic feminine figures—Sarasā and Mānasā—performing intense austerities beside a quiet kund in Kāśī; fire of tapas visualized as a subtle aura; the tirtha’s name inscribed or spoken by a narrator.
FAQs
Austerity (tapas) performed by revered beings consecrates a place, making it a lasting tīrtha for public uplift.
Mānasatīrtha, named due to the tapas associated with Sarasā and Mānasā.
No explicit rite is commanded here; the verse explains the tīrtha’s sanctifying origin through tapas.