Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 37
एष मंत्रस्तदा जप्तो ह्यगस्त्येन महात्मना । यत्प्रभावान्नदीनाथस्तेन संशोषितो ध्रुवम्
eṣa maṃtrastadā japto hyagastyena mahātmanā | yatprabhāvānnadīnāthastena saṃśoṣito dhruvam
हा तोच मंत्र त्या काळी महात्मा अगस्त्यांनी जपला; त्याच्या प्रभावाने नदींचा नाथ (समुद्र) त्यांनी निश्चयच आटविला।
Sūta
Tirtha: मंत्रसिद्धिपीठ (name not specified in excerpt)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (assembly of sages)
Scene: Agastya, radiant with ascetic power, seated in japa on a sacred pīṭha; the mighty river (personified as a nāga-like or deity-form ‘nadīnātha’) recedes and dries under mantra-force; sages witness in awe.
FAQs
It validates mantra efficacy through a revered ṛṣi’s precedent, framing siddhi as part of the Purāṇic sacred narrative.
The adhyāya’s tīrtha/pīṭha is praised as mantra-siddhi-giving; this verse supports that praise via the Agastya exemplar rather than naming the site.
Japa of the previously described mantra, cited with Agastya as the authoritative practitioner.