Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 29
नद्यां स्नातौ तथा तौ च दम्पती च शुचि व्रतौ । यावद्गतश्च भोक्तुं स तावच्छ्वा स्वयमागतः
nadyāṃ snātau tathā tau ca dampatī ca śuci vratau | yāvadgataśca bhoktuṃ sa tāvacchvā svayamāgataḥ
پھر میاں بیوی دونوں نے دریا میں غسل کیا، دونوں پاکیزہ ورت کے پابند تھے۔ جیسے ہی وہ کھانے کو گیا، ویسے ہی ایک کتا خود بخود وہاں آ پہنچا۔
Lomaharṣaṇa Sūta (deduced: Māheśvarakhaṇḍa narration to sages)
Type: ghat
Scene: The couple completes a ritual bath in the river, wet garments clinging, hands joined in brief prayer; as the husband turns toward the food, a lone dog approaches from the forest path, alert and purposeful.
FAQs
Purity of conduct—expressed through snāna and vrata—frames the narrative where unexpected tests arrive at decisive moments.
Kedāra-kṣetra’s river tīrtha setting, where bathing is portrayed as a marker of sacred discipline.
Snāna (bathing) in the river and maintaining śuci-vrata (pure observance) are explicitly mentioned.