Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 13
पिंडारक उवाच । गणोऽहं तव देवेश भवानि त्रिपुरांतक । यथा तथा कुरु विभो नान्यन्मे हृदि वर्तते
piṃḍāraka uvāca | gaṇo'haṃ tava deveśa bhavāni tripurāṃtaka | yathā tathā kuru vibho nānyanme hṛdi vartate
പിണ്ഡാരകൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഹേ ദേവേശാ, ഹേ ത്രിപുരാന്തകാ, ഹേ ഭവാനീ! ഞാൻ നിന്റെ ഗണനാണ്. ഹേ വിഭോ, നിനക്കിഷ്ടമുള്ളപോലെ എന്നെ നടത്തുക; എന്റെ ഹൃദയത്തിൽ മറ്റൊന്നുമില്ല.
Piṇḍāraka
Tirtha: Piṇḍāraka (speaker; tīrtha named after him)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śiva (Devēśa, Tripurāntaka)
Scene: Piṇḍāraka, a brāhmaṇa-devotee, stands before Śiva (Tripurāntaka) with intense humility, declaring himself a gaṇa and offering total compliance to divine will.
FAQs
Single-minded surrender (śaraṇāgati) to Śiva—placing no other desire in the heart.
Piṇḍāraka Tīrtha, whose māhātmya is being introduced in this chapter.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; the verse expresses devotional surrender, which becomes the basis for later tīrtha merits.