कूपे स्नानं नरः कृत्वा भक्त्या यः पांडुनंदन । गयाश्राद्धेन यत्पुण्यं तत्फलं लभते स्फुटम्
kūpe snānaṃ naraḥ kṛtvā bhaktyā yaḥ pāṃḍunaṃdana | gayāśrāddhena yatpuṇyaṃ tatphalaṃ labhate sphuṭam
اے پاندو کے فرزند! جو شخص بھکتی کے ساتھ اُس کنویں میں اشنان کرے، وہ گیا میں شرادھ کرنے سے جو پُنّیہ ملتا ہے، وہی پھل صاف طور پر پا لیتا ہے۔
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating the Māhātmya (contextual attribution within Māheśvarakhaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Guha-kūpa (Gayā-tulya tīrtha)
Type: kund
Listener: Pāṇḍunandana
Scene: A devotee bathes in the stone-lined well with folded hands; subtle ancestral presences are suggested (pitṛs receiving water); a distant symbolic vignette of Gayā’s śrāddha rites appears as an equivalence motif.
Devotional bathing at a sanctified tīrtha can bestow merit equal to renowned ancestral rites, showing the power of sacred geography and bhakti.
A sacred well (kūpa) associated with the Staṃbheśvara tīrtha-context in Kaumārikākhaṇḍa, compared in merit to Gayā.
Snāna (ritual bathing) in the well, performed with devotion (bhaktyā).