Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
पुराऽसीद्रजको नाम्ना शमिलाक्षो महीपते । नीलीमध्ये तु वस्त्राणि प्रक्षिप्तानि महीपते
purā'sīdrajako nāmnā śamilākṣo mahīpate | nīlīmadhye tu vastrāṇi prakṣiptāni mahīpate
ഹേ മഹീപതേ! പുരാതനകാലത്ത് ശമിലാക്ഷൻ എന്ന പേരുള്ള ഒരു രജകൻ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു; ഹേ രാജാ, വസ്ത്രങ്ങൾ നീലിക്കുണ്ടിൽ ഇട്ടുകളഞ്ഞിരുന്നു।
Pulastya
Tirtha: Śukla Tīrtha (contextual)
Type: ghat
Listener: King (māhīpati)
Scene: A washerman beside a large indigo vat, tossing garments into the deep blue dye; nearby, a riverbank/ghat hints at the future Śukla Tīrtha; the scene feels ordinary yet charged with impending sacred reversal.
FAQs
Purāṇas often begin tīrtha-māhātmyas with ordinary life-events, showing how dharma and destiny can turn daily acts into sacred turning points.
Śukla Tīrtha, whose origin-story is being introduced through Śamilākṣa’s episode.
No explicit ritual here; it is narrative background for the tīrtha’s later glory.