Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 25
तस्मिन्प्राभासिके क्षेत्रे कर्द्दमेन विलेपितम् । तद्दंष्ट्राग्रं यतो देवि कर्द्दमालं ततः स्मृतम्
tasminprābhāsike kṣetre karddamena vilepitam | taddaṃṣṭrāgraṃ yato devi karddamālaṃ tataḥ smṛtam
ในเขตศักดิ์สิทธิ์ปราภาสิกะนั้น ปลายงาเปื้อนโคลน; เพราะเหตุนั้น โอ้เทวี จึงเป็นที่ระลึกนามว่า “กัรททมาลา”
Īśvara (Śiva) (contextual continuation)
Tirtha: Karddamāla
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (addressed as ‘devi’/‘priye’)
Scene: A sacred patch of Prabhāsa where the tip of Varāha’s tusk is shown smeared with wet earth, while sages/goddess-listener receive the explanation of the name Karddamāla; the landscape suggests coastal Gujarat with sandy soil and a small muddy hollow.
FAQs
Even seemingly ordinary substances like mud become sanctified when touched by divine acts; sacred geography is born from divine contact.
Karddamāla tīrtha in Prabhāsa Kṣetra (Prābhāsika kṣetra).
No explicit prescription here; the verse provides the tīrtha’s naming-legend (nāma-nirukti) central to its māhātmya.