Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
ऋषितोयेति तन्नाम कथं ख्यातं धरातले । कथं सा पुनरायाता देवदारुवने शुभे
ṛṣitoyeti tannāma kathaṃ khyātaṃ dharātale | kathaṃ sā punarāyātā devadāruvane śubhe
Paano nakilala sa daigdig ang pangalang “Ṛṣitoyā”? At paano siya muling nakarating sa mapalad na gubat ng Devadāru?
Devī
Tirtha: Ṛṣitoyā
Type: kund
Listener: Īśvara (Śiva)
Scene: Devī asks two pointed questions: the etymology/fame of ‘Ṛṣitoyā’ and her ‘return’ to the auspicious Devadāru forest; visual emphasis on a sacred grove and a luminous watercourse reappearing.
FAQs
Purāṇas treat names and journeys of rivers/places as sacred history (etiology) that encodes dharma and tīrtha-power.
Ṛṣitoyā and the Devadāruvana locale connected to the Prabhāsa-kṣetra māhātmya.
None explicitly; the verse asks for the origin-story that typically grounds later prescriptions like snāna, dāna, and vrata.
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