Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 19
देवस्योत्तरदिग्भागे कुंडं तिष्ठति नित्यशः । तस्यां स्नात्वा मुनिश्रेष्ठ लिंगं मे पश्यते तु यः । स याति परमं स्थानं जरामरणवर्जितम्
devasyottaradigbhāge kuṃḍaṃ tiṣṭhati nityaśaḥ | tasyāṃ snātvā muniśreṣṭha liṃgaṃ me paśyate tu yaḥ | sa yāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ jarāmaraṇavarjitam
देवालयाच्या उत्तर दिशेला एक कुंड सदैव आहे। हे मुनिश्रेष्ठ, जो त्यात स्नान करून माझ्या लिंगाचे दर्शन करतो, तो जरा-मरणरहित परम स्थानास प्राप्त होतो।
Śiva (Maheśvara)
Tirtha: Uttara-kuṇḍa (north tank of the deity)
Type: kund
Listener: muni-śreṣṭha / muni-sattama
Scene: Pilgrims bathe in a clear kuṇḍa situated north of a Śiva shrine; after bathing, they walk with wet hair and folded hands toward the liṅga for darśana; the scene conveys purity and transcendence.
FAQs
Purification through tīrtha-snān and sanctification through darśana together are presented as a direct path to the highest spiritual state.
A specific kuṇḍa (sacred tank) situated north of the deity’s shrine in the Arbuda region, linked to Śiva’s liṅga.
Bathe in the kuṇḍa and then take darśana of Śiva’s liṅga.