Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
आजगाम मृगो वृद्धस्तं देशमन्ध दृक्प्रिये । स पपात महागर्ते अगाधे जलवर्जिते
ājagāma mṛgo vṛddhastaṃ deśamandha dṛkpriye | sa papāta mahāgarte agādhe jalavarjite
ഹേ അന്ധദൃഷ്ടി-പ്രിയേ! ഒരു വൃദ്ധമൃഗം ആ സ്ഥലത്തേക്ക് വന്നു; ജലമില്ലാത്ത അതിഗഹനമായ മഹാഗർത്തത്തിൽ അത് വീണുപോയി।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual; specific water-body implied later)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A frail, aged deer wanders into a desolate sacred landscape and slips into a vast, dry, dark pit—its body half-visible against earthen walls, evoking helplessness within a tīrtha’s hidden power.
FAQs
A tīrtha narrative often begins with suffering that becomes the occasion for grace and sacred transformation.
The locale of the famed well/pit near the Devikā riverbank in Prabhāsakṣetra.
None; this verse introduces the incident that leads to the tīrtha’s miraculous water.