Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 39
तत्रैव च महालक्ष्म्यास्तीर्थं त्रैलोक्यविश्रुतम् । स्वयं यत्र महालक्ष्मीः स्नाता त्रैलोक्यहर्षदा
tatraiva ca mahālakṣmyāstīrthaṃ trailokyaviśrutam | svayaṃ yatra mahālakṣmīḥ snātā trailokyaharṣadā
وہیں مہالکشمی کا تیرتھ ہے جو تینوں لوکوں میں مشہور ہے—جہاں خود مہالکشمی نے اشنان کیا تھا اور تینوں جہانوں کو مسرت بخشتی ہے۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically Skanda instructing Agastya)
Tirtha: Mahālakṣmī-tīrtha
Type: kund
Listener: Assembled sages
Scene: Mahālakṣmī, radiant and lotus-bearing, is depicted bathing at a Kāśī tīrtha; the waters glow, and beings of the three worlds rejoice.
FAQs
A tīrtha becomes supremely auspicious through divine association; devotion at such a place spreads well-being beyond the individual.
Mahālakṣmī-tīrtha, celebrated as famed across the three worlds.
The verse implies snāna at Mahālakṣmī-tīrtha, grounded in the precedent of the Goddess’s own bath.