Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7
तथा तप्तोदकस्वामी तस्य नामांतरं प्रिये । अधुना संप्रवक्ष्यामि तलोत्पत्तिं तव प्रिये
tathā taptodakasvāmī tasya nāmāṃtaraṃ priye | adhunā saṃpravakṣyāmi talotpattiṃ tava priye
प्रिये, ‘तप्तोदक-स्वामी’ हेही त्या प्रभूचे दुसरे नाव आहे. आता, प्रिये, मी तुला तलाची उत्पत्ती सविस्तर सांगतो.
Śiva
Tirtha: Taptodaka (associated with Taptodaka-svāmin)
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: The narrator, affectionately addressing Devī, points toward a steaming sacred water source near a shrine; pilgrims gather with copper pots as the story of Tala’s origin is about to be told.
FAQs
Sacred places preserve multiple divine epithets and histories; knowing the origin-story deepens śraddhā and tīrtha reverence.
The Prabhāsa-kṣetra shrine/tīrtha associated with Tala-svāmin, also called Taptodaka-svāmin.
Implicitly references a sacred water associated with ‘Taptodaka’; explicit prescriptions (snāna, etc.) are not stated in this verse.