Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 39
यथायथा महामांसं स भक्षयति राघव । तथातथा पुनः कायं तद्रूपं तत्प्रजायते
yathāyathā mahāmāṃsaṃ sa bhakṣayati rāghava | tathātathā punaḥ kāyaṃ tadrūpaṃ tatprajāyate
हे राघवा! ज्या ज्या प्रकारे तो त्या महामांसाचे भक्षण करतो, त्या त्या प्रकारे त्याचे शरीर पुन्हा तशाच रूपाचे होते.
Agastya (narrator, addressing Rāghava within the story-context)
Type: kund
Listener: Rāghava
Scene: A wondrous metamorphosis: as the being consumes flesh, his own body reconstitutes in matching form—suggesting a mirror-like law of embodiment.
FAQs
Actions (especially impure or forbidden consumption) shape one’s embodied condition; karma expresses itself as corresponding results.
The verse sits within a Tīrthamāhātmya episode connected to a pond/tank (taḍāga) setting; the exact tīrtha name is not stated in this single shloka.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; it describes karmic causality affecting the body.