Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 39
तत्रैव च महालक्ष्म्यास्तीर्थं त्रैलोक्यविश्रुतम् । स्वयं यत्र महालक्ष्मीः स्नाता त्रैलोक्यहर्षदा
tatraiva ca mahālakṣmyāstīrthaṃ trailokyaviśrutam | svayaṃ yatra mahālakṣmīḥ snātā trailokyaharṣadā
ಅಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಮಹಾಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿಯ ತೀರ್ಥವಿದೆ, ಅದು ತ್ರೈಲೋಕ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧ—ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಯಂ ಮಹಾಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಸ್ನಾನಮಾಡಿ ತ್ರೈಲೋಕ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಹರ್ಷವನ್ನು ದಯಪಾಲಿಸಿದಳು.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically Skanda instructing Agastya)
Tirtha: Mahālakṣmī-tīrtha
Type: kund
Listener: Assembled sages
Scene: Mahālakṣmī, radiant and lotus-bearing, is depicted bathing at a Kāśī tīrtha; the waters glow, and beings of the three worlds rejoice.
FAQs
A tīrtha becomes supremely auspicious through divine association; devotion at such a place spreads well-being beyond the individual.
Mahālakṣmī-tīrtha, celebrated as famed across the three worlds.
The verse implies snāna at Mahālakṣmī-tīrtha, grounded in the precedent of the Goddess’s own bath.