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
హే దేవీ, నీవే స్వాహా, నీవే స్వధా; నీవే సృష్టి, నీవే శుచిత్వం మరియు ధృతి. నీవే అరుంధతీ, అలాగే ఇంద్రాణీ; నీవే లక్ష్మీ, నీవే పార్వతీ।
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.