Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 5
दन्तैर्द्रुतं समुत्पाट्य यावदाकर्षति द्विजाः । तावत्तज्जडमार्गेण तोयधारा विनिर्गता
dantairdrutaṃ samutpāṭya yāvadākarṣati dvijāḥ | tāvattajjaḍamārgeṇa toyadhārā vinirgatā
นางใช้ฟันถอนขึ้นอย่างรวดเร็วแล้วดึงไว้ โอ้ทวิชะทั้งหลาย; ในขณะนั้นเอง สายน้ำก็พุ่งออกมาตามร่องทางอันแข็งแน่นนั้น
Sūta
Type: kund
Listener: dvijāḥ / dvijaśreṣṭhāḥ (addressed audience within the narration)
Scene: A thirsty cow uproots a tuft of grass with her teeth; at the very pull, a clear stream bursts from the earth along a newly formed rigid channel, startling nearby sages/Brāhmaṇas.
FAQs
When dharma’s conditions mature, grace can burst forth suddenly—turning an ordinary act into the revelation of a tīrtha.
Gomukha-tīrtha, whose water is described as emerging at the cow’s action.
None explicitly; the verse narrates the tīrtha’s emergence (prādurbhāva), foundational for later practices like snāna and pāna.