तस्याग्रतः शुभं कुंडं तत्र चैव विनिर्मितम् । स्वच्छोदकेन सम्पूर्णं पद्मिनीखंडमंडितम्
tasyāgrataḥ śubhaṃ kuṃḍaṃ tatra caiva vinirmitam | svacchodakena sampūrṇaṃ padminīkhaṃḍamaṃḍitam
Diante daquele santuário foi também construído um belo tanque sagrado (kuṇḍa), cheio de água límpida e ornado por moitas de lótus.
Sūta
Tirtha: Temple-front Kuṇḍa (unnamed)
Type: kund
Listener: Śaunaka and sages (implied)
Scene: A beautiful kuṇḍa is built before the shrine, brimming with clear water and decorated with clusters of lotus plants.
A tīrtha is not only a deity-image but a sanctified landscape—temple and water-body together support purity, devotion, and pilgrimage merit.
The auspicious kuṇḍa situated before the Umā-Maheśvara shrine described in Nāgarakhaṇḍa, Adhyāya 52.
Implicitly, the kuṇḍa is a place for snāna (ritual bathing), elaborated explicitly in the following verse.