खातंखातं च दंडाग्रैर्भूमिं कंदादिवृत्तयः । चक्रुः पुष्करिणीं रम्यां दंडखाताभिधां मुने
khātaṃkhātaṃ ca daṃḍāgrairbhūmiṃ kaṃdādivṛttayaḥ | cakruḥ puṣkariṇīṃ ramyāṃ daṃḍakhātābhidhāṃ mune
اپنے ڈنڈوں کی نوک سے زمین کو بار بار کھود کر، کَند مُول وغیرہ پر گزارا کرنے والے اُن تپسویوں نے، اے مُنی، ایک دلکش پُشکرِنی بنائی جو ‘دَنڈکھاتا’ کے نام سے مشہور ہوئی۔
Skanda (narration)
Tirtha: Daṇḍakhātā (Puṣkariṇī/Kuṇḍa)
Type: kund
Listener: Muni (frame listener)
Scene: Ascetics repeatedly striking and scraping earth with the tips of their staffs, gradually forming a clear pond; roots and forest produce nearby; a sage-listener implied.
Tapas (austere effort) transforms the landscape into tīrtha—sacred resources arise from disciplined renunciation and devotion.
The pond named Daṇḍakhātā (a puṣkariṇī/tank) within the Kāśī sacred region.
Not explicitly; as a puṣkariṇī, it implies future acts like snāna (sacred bathing) and tīrtha-sevā.