Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 5
हरकोपोद्भवायेति स्वेदजायातिबाहवे । सर्वकामप्रदायेति पूर्वादिषु दलेषु च
harakopodbhavāyeti svedajāyātibāhave | sarvakāmapradāyeti pūrvādiṣu daleṣu ca
مشرق سے شروع ہونے والی پنکھڑیوں پر یوں منتر کہہ کر پوجا کرے: ‘ہَر کے غضب سے پیدا ہوا’، ‘پسینے سے جنما’، ‘قوی بازو والا’ اور ‘تمام مرادیں دینے والا’۔
Deductive: Narrative instruction within Revā Khaṇḍa (speaker not explicit in snippet)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha context (general)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A worshipper performs lotus-petal (dala) pūjā, moving from the eastern petal onward, offering red flowers while reciting epithets of Kuja/Aṅgāraka linked to Śiva’s wrath and sweat-birth; a riverine tīrtha ambience suggests Revā’s banks.
FAQs
Remembering divine origins and attributes through names (nāma) is itself worship and aligns desire with dharma.
The Revā Khaṇḍa context connects the rite to the Narmadā sacred landscape, though no single tīrtha is named in this verse.
Perform dala-pūjā across the directional petals, reciting specific epithets of Aṅgāraka/Kuja.