Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
ब्रह्मलोकं तदा कृत्स्नं प्लावयित्वा जलं हि तत् । शुद्धस्फटिकसंकाशं कुन्देन्दुसदृशद्युति । मत्स्यकच्छपसंकीर्णं ग्राहयूथैः समाकुलम्
brahmalokaṃ tadā kṛtsnaṃ plāvayitvā jalaṃ hi tat | śuddhasphaṭikasaṃkāśaṃ kundendusadṛśadyuti | matsyakacchapasaṃkīrṇaṃ grāhayūthaiḥ samākulam
ते जल तेव्हा संपूर्ण ब्रह्मलोकाला प्लावून गेले। ते शुद्ध स्फटिकासारखे तेजस्वी, कुंदपुष्प व चंद्रासारखे उजळ; मत्स्य व कच्छपांनी भरलेले आणि ग्राहांच्या थव्यांनी गजबजलेले होते।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Tīrthamāhātmya; exact speaker not explicit in snippet)
Tirtha: Viṣṇupadī (Gaṅgā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis/sages
Scene: A vast, luminous expanse of water floods Brahmaloka, sparkling like crystal; aquatic beings—fish, tortoises, and crocodile schools—move within the radiant flood.
FAQs
Sacred waters are portrayed as cosmically vast and intrinsically purifying, worthy of reverence as a manifestation of divine order.
The passage is part of the glorification of Viṣṇupadī/gaṅgā-tīrtha (the sacred current later identified as Gaṅgā).
No direct ritual is prescribed here; it is a descriptive praise (māhātmya) of the holy water’s nature and radiance.