Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 67
नूनं तस्य प्रभावोऽयं तीर्थस्याद्य निशागमे । मयावगाहितं यच्च पशोरर्थं सुकर्द्दमम्
nūnaṃ tasya prabhāvo'yaṃ tīrthasyādya niśāgame | mayāvagāhitaṃ yacca paśorarthaṃ sukarddamam
നിശ്ചയമായും ഇത് ഇന്നിരാത്രി വെളിപ്പെട്ട ആ തീർത്ഥത്തിന്റെ പ്രഭാവം തന്നെയാണ്; കാരണം ആ മൃഗത്തിനുവേണ്ടി ഞാൻ ആ സുഖകരമായ ചെളിമിശ്രിത ജലത്തിലേക്കും ഇറങ്ങിയിരുന്നു.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced)
Type: tirtha
Scene: The healed man, now radiant, gestures toward the direction of the sacred pit/ford, acknowledging its power; memory of the muddy immersion and animal rescue overlays the scene like a narrative vignette.
FAQs
Even incidental contact with a powerful tīrtha—especially while performing a compassionate act—can yield extraordinary purification and blessing.
The unnamed tīrtha/kuṇḍa of Adhyāya 212, whose potency is being inferred by the healed person; later verses connect practice here with Bhāskara.
Implied avagāha (immersion/bathing) in the tīrtha; explicit injunctions to perform snāna appear in verse 71 onward.
Read Skanda Purana in the Vedapath app
Scan the QR code to open this directly in the app, with audio, word-by-word meanings, and more.