Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 62
त्वं स्वाहा त्वं स्वधा देवि त्वं सृष्टिस्त्वं शुचिर्धृतिः । अरुंधती तथेंद्राणी त्वं लक्ष्मीस्त्वं च पार्वती
tvaṃ svāhā tvaṃ svadhā devi tvaṃ sṛṣṭistvaṃ śucirdhṛtiḥ | aruṃdhatī tatheṃdrāṇī tvaṃ lakṣmīstvaṃ ca pārvatī
தேவி, நீயே ஸ்வாஹா; நீயே ஸ்வதா. நீயே ஸிருஷ்டி; நீயே தூய்மை மற்றும் திடநிலை. நீயே அருந்ததி, மேலும் இந்திராணியும்; நீயே லக்ஷ்மி, நீயே பார்வதி।
Śiva
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: A visionary montage: Devī is praised as Svāhā and Svadhā, as Creation, Purity, Steadfastness, and as multiple goddess-forms—Arundhatī, Indrāṇī, Lakṣmī, Pārvatī—unified in one radiant presence.
FAQs
All auspicious powers—ritual, moral virtue, prosperity, and divine consort forms—are unified in the one Goddess.
No site is named in this verse; it is doctrinal praise within the broader tīrtha narrative.
The verse references Vedic ritual categories (svāhā for devas, svadhā for pitṛs), implying the Goddess as the inner potency of offerings.
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