Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 30
अमी समुद्रास्तव देव देहे मौर्वालयः शैलधरास्तथामी । इमाश्च गङ्गाप्रमुखाः स्रवन्त्यो द्वीपाण्यशेषाणि वनादिदेशाः
amī samudrāstava deva dehe maurvālayaḥ śailadharāstathāmī | imāśca gaṅgāpramukhāḥ sravantyo dvīpāṇyaśeṣāṇi vanādideśāḥ
ஓ தேவா! உமது தெய்வீக உடலில் இச் சமுத்திரங்களும், மலைத்தொடர்களும், சிகரங்களைத் தாங்கும் கிரிகளும் உள்ளன. கங்கை முதலான ஓடும் நதிகளும், எல்லா தீவுகளும், வனங்களும், நாடு-பிரதேசங்களும்—அனைத்தும் உம்முள் நிலைகொள்கின்றன.
A devotee/sage praising the Supreme Lord (Viṣṇu/Nārāyaṇa) in Revā Khaṇḍa context
Tirtha: Sarva-tīrtha-bhāva (all tīrthas within the Lord) with Revā as contemplative gateway
Type: kshetra
Scene: The Lord’s cosmic body contains oceans like girdles, mountain ranges as bones, rivers (Gaṅgā foremost) flowing as veins, and continents/forests as patterned fields across the torso—devotees gaze upward in awe.
FAQs
Sacred geography is sanctified because all lands, rivers, and oceans are contained in the Divine; pilgrimage becomes a way of seeing God in the world.
The verse gestures to pan-Indian sacred geography (Gaṅgā foremost) while situated within the Revā (Narmadā) Khaṇḍa’s pilgrimage-oriented framework.
No explicit ritual is stated; the emphasis is on cosmic vision that underlies tīrtha-reverence.