Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 4
सूत उवाच । एषा तपोमयी शक्तिरम्बावृद्धा सुरेश्वरी । यथात्र संस्थिता पूर्वं तत्सर्वं श्रूयतां मम
sūta uvāca | eṣā tapomayī śaktirambāvṛddhā sureśvarī | yathātra saṃsthitā pūrvaṃ tatsarvaṃ śrūyatāṃ mama
സൂതൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഇവൾ തപോമയിയായ ശക്തി, അംബാവൃദ്ധാ, സുരേശ്വരി. പുരാതനകാലത്ത് ഇവിടെ എങ്ങനെ സ്ഥാപിതയായെന്നത് എല്ലാം എന്റെ വചനത്തിൽ നിന്ന് ശ്രവിക്കുവിൻ.
Sūta
Tirtha: Ambāvṛddhā
Type: kshetra
Listener: Assembly of sages/brāhmaṇas (implied)
Scene: Sūta begins the account: Ambāvṛddhā appears as a radiant sovereign goddess, her aura suggesting concentrated tapas; the setting hints at the specific locale where she was installed long ago.
FAQs
Tapas (austerity) is presented as the very substance of divine presence; the goddess’s power is inseparable from disciplined spiritual effort.
The chapter’s tīrtha-context is the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra area, where Ambāvṛddhā Śakti is said to abide.
No direct prescription; it begins the māhātmya narration that will ground later practices in the site’s origin story.