Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 19
सप्तर्षय इति श्रेष्ठां यो जपेत्तु समाहितः । ऋचं रोगविनाशाय स रोगैः परि मुच्यते
saptarṣaya iti śreṣṭhāṃ yo japettu samāhitaḥ | ṛcaṃ rogavināśāya sa rogaiḥ pari mucyate
ഏകാഗ്രചിത്തനായി രോഗനാശത്തിനായി ‘സപ്തർഷയഃ…’ എന്ന് ആരംഭിക്കുന്ന ശ്രേഷ്ഠ ഋക് ജപിക്കുന്നവൻ എല്ലാ രോഗങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നും പൂർണ്ണമായി വിമുക്തനാകുന്നു।
Skanda (deduced from tīrthamāhātmya instructional style within Skanda Purāṇa)
Scene: A sick devotee sits near the tirtha, eyes closed in concentration, reciting the ṛc beginning ‘saptarṣayaḥ’; a subtle aura of the Seven Sages appears, and the body regains vitality.
FAQs
Focused recitation (samādhāna in japa) at a sacred place is depicted as restoring wholeness and removing affliction.
The tīrtha praised in Adhyāya 36 of the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya; the excerpt does not name it.
Japa of a Vedic ṛc beginning “saptarṣayaḥ …” with the intention of destroying disease.