Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
सरस्वतीं समादध्यौ नदीं त्रैलोक्यपावनीम् । सा ध्याता मनसा तेन मुनिना तत्र तत्क्षणात्
sarasvatīṃ samādadhyau nadīṃ trailokyapāvanīm | sā dhyātā manasā tena muninā tatra tatkṣaṇāt
स मुनिः सरस्वतीं समादध्यौ—नदीं त्रैलोक्यपावनीम्। तेन मनसा ध्यातैव सा तत्क्षणात् तत्र समुपस्थिताभवत्।
Sūta (deduced)
Tirtha: Sarasvatī-prādurbhāva-sthāna (local Sarasvatī-kund/srotas)
Type: kund
Scene: The sage meditates; Sarasvatī appears instantly—personified goddess rising with a vīṇā and water-pot, or as a sudden surge of crystalline water forming a stream around the pit.
FAQs
Pure remembrance of a sacred power (śakti) can summon grace; the divine responds to concentrated dhyāna.
Sarasvatī is praised as a purifier across the cosmos; within Arbuda Khaṇḍa, her presence sanctifies the locale as a tīrtha-like field of intervention.
Mental worship/meditation (mānasa-dhyāna) upon Sarasvatī is exemplified as an efficacious spiritual act.