Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 58
गुरुश्च दक्षिणे कर्णे वामकर्णे तथा भृगुः । मुखे शनैश्चरः प्रोक्तो गुदे राहुः प्रकीर्तितः
guruśca dakṣiṇe karṇe vāmakarṇe tathā bhṛguḥ | mukhe śanaiścaraḥ prokto gude rāhuḥ prakīrtitaḥ
उजव्या कानात गुरु (बृहस्पती) आणि डाव्या कानात भृगु (शुक्र) आहेत। मुखात शनैश्चर म्हटला आहे आणि गुदात राहू प्रकीर्तित आहे.
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Karṇa-Guru/Śukra sthāna; Mukha-Śani; Guda-Rāhu (Deha-graha mapping)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A symbolic figure with highlighted ears (right with Jupiter’s golden emblem, left with Venus’ bright emblem), mouth with Saturn’s dark-blue sign, and a discreet lower-body aura indicating Rāhu as shadow-node—handled with iconographic modesty.
FAQs
Even the forces that govern fate (grahas) are to be understood as residing within the embodied field, making self-discipline a sacred cosmological practice.
No external tīrtha is named; the teaching supports the internalization of pilgrimage through sacred-body contemplation.
Implied contemplative placement (nyāsa) of grahas in bodily locations; no external rite is specified.
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