Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 9
ऋषय ऊचुः । गौरी चतुर्भुजा प्रोक्ता दृश्यते परमेश्वरी । पञ्चपिंडा कथं जाता ह्येतं नः संशयं वद
ṛṣaya ūcuḥ | gaurī caturbhujā proktā dṛśyate parameśvarī | pañcapiṃḍā kathaṃ jātā hyetaṃ naḥ saṃśayaṃ vada
Мудрецы сказали: Гаури, Верховная Богиня, описывается как четырёхрукая, и такою она и является взору. Как же возник образ, именуемый Панчапинда? Скажи нам и развей сомнение.
Ṛṣis (Sages)
Tirtha: Pañcapiṇḍā (Gaurī form/title)
Type: temple
Listener: Ṛṣayaḥ (sages)
Scene: A circle of ṛṣis questions the narrator before a shrine where Gaurī is seen in her four-armed form; beside it, an enigmatic emblematic representation of ‘Pañcapiṇḍā’ (five sacred lumps/stones) is shown, prompting wonder.
FAQs
Purāṇic teaching invites inquiry: understanding the deity’s forms deepens faith and right worship.
The question pertains to the localized shrine-form ‘Pañcapiṇḍā/Pañcapiṇḍikā’ within this Nāgara-khaṇḍa tīrtha narrative.
None; it initiates the explanatory legend about the deity’s form.