Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 16
तपतस्तस्य देवस्य स्वेदः समभवत्किल । तं गिरिं प्लावयामास स स्वेदो रुद्रसंभवः
tapatastasya devasya svedaḥ samabhavatkila | taṃ giriṃ plāvayāmāsa sa svedo rudrasaṃbhavaḥ
جب وہ دیوتا تپسیا میں مشغول تھا تو یقیناً اس کے بدن سے پسینہ نکلا؛ اور رودر سے پیدا ہوا وہ پسینہ پہاڑ کو ڈبو دینے لگا۔
Manu
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) – Rudra-sveda-janmā (mythic epithet)
Type: kshetra
Listener: nṛpa (king) addressed in the narrative
Scene: A blazing ascetic Rudra on a mountain; from his body, luminous sweat streams pour down, swelling into torrents that inundate the slopes, foreshadowing a river’s birth.
FAQs
Purifying sacred waters are portrayed as arising from divine tapas—holiness is born from spiritual heat transformed into grace.
The narrative roots the Revā/Narmadā sanctity in a Shaiva origin linked to a sacred mountain (Ṛkṣaśaila).
None explicitly; the verse supplies the mythic etiology for later tīrtha practices such as snāna and pilgrimage.