Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 9
एवमुक्त्वा सुविस्तीर्णां शिलां तामा सनोद्भवाम् । प्रचिक्षेप धरापृष्ठं समुद्दिश्य पितामहः
evamuktvā suvistīrṇāṃ śilāṃ tāmā sanodbhavām | pracikṣepa dharāpṛṣṭhaṃ samuddiśya pitāmahaḥ
ഇങ്ങനെ പറഞ്ഞിട്ട് പിതാമഹൻ ബ്രഹ്മാവ് സനയിൽ നിന്നുദ്ഭവിച്ച, വിശാലമായി പരന്ന ആ ശിലയെ അതിന്റെ നിശ്ചിത ലക്ഷ്യം ഉദ്ദേശിച്ച് ഭൂമിയുടെ മേൽപ്പുറത്തേക്ക് എറിഞ്ഞു।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator, likely Sūta) describing Brahmā’s action (deduced)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Brahmā, four-faced, poised in a cosmic gesture, hurling a vast, flat stone through the sky toward earth; below, the landscape awaits consecration—rivers, plains, and a nascent shrine-site.
FAQs
Holy places are portrayed as intentionally established through divine will, making pilgrimage participation a response to a sacred foundation.
The foundation act that leads to the sanctification of the Camatkārapura-kṣetra described immediately afterward in this adhyāya.
No direct rite is prescribed here; it narrates the founding act (the casting of the śilā) that creates the locus for later observances.