Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 39
प्रक्षिपध्वं द्रुतं गत्वा तस्यां रक्तमिदं महत् । पापस्यास्य सपत्नस्य ममादेशादसंशयम्
prakṣipadhvaṃ drutaṃ gatvā tasyāṃ raktamidaṃ mahat | pāpasyāsya sapatnasya mamādeśādasaṃśayam
விரைந்து சென்று அந்தக் குழியில் இந்தப் பாவியான பகைவனின் இந்தப் பெரும் இரத்தத்தைச் செலுத்துங்கள்—என் ஆணையின்படி, ஐயமில்லை।
Rāma (Paraśurāma)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (garta)
Type: kund
Scene: The rishi commands a group to hurry and pour the collected blood into the water-filled pit within Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra; the scene focuses on urgency, procession, and the pit as ritual endpoint.
FAQs
In Purāṇic storytelling, actions are bound to ritual purpose; command and duty are framed as instruments within a tīrtha’s sacral economy.
The command relates to the pit located in Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra described in the preceding verse.
A specific procedural instruction: carry and deposit the collected substance into the designated pit used for pitṛ-related rites.