Shloka 43
Kuru's Consecration — Kuru’s Consecration and the Sanctification of Samantapañcaka (Kurukshetra)
तस्यैव मध्ये बहुपुण्य उक्तः पृथूदकः पापहरः शिवश्च पुण्या नदी प्राङ्मुखतां प्रयाता यत्रौघयुक्तस्य शुभा जताढ्या
tasyaiva madhye bahupuṇya uktaḥ pṛthūdakaḥ pāpaharaḥ śivaśca puṇyā nadī prāṅmukhatāṃ prayātā yatraughayuktasya śubhā jatāḍhyā
ആ പുണ്യപ്രദേശത്തിന്റെ മദ്ധ്യത്തിൽ ‘പൃഥൂദകം’ മഹാപുണ്യകരവും പാപഹരവും ശിവമയവും എന്നു പ്രസിദ്ധമാണ്. അവിടെ ഒരു പുണ്യനദി കിഴക്കോട്ടു മുഖം തിരിച്ച് ഒഴുകുന്നു; അതിന്റെ പ്രവാഹം ശുഭകരവും ജടകളാൽ സമൃദ്ധവുമാണ് (തപസ്സു-ശൈവ പവിത്രതയോടുകൂടി).
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FAQs
The verse frames sacred waters as instruments of inner and outer purification, but also as carriers of 'śiva'—auspiciousness—implying that purity is not merely absence of sin but the cultivation of благоприятность/auspicious disposition aligned with dharma.
As with many Purāṇic māhātmyas, it sits outside the strict five topics (sarga etc.) and functions as a dharma-oriented appendix within narrative tradition—preserving pilgrimage geography and its salvific theology.
The eastward orientation (prāṅmukhatā) is a ritual-theological marker (east = illumination, beginnings, sāttvika direction). 'Jaṭāḍhyā' evokes Śiva’s ascetic power, suggesting that the river embodies tapas and restraint, not just physical water.