Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 7
तथा स्यात्परमं रूपं तारुण्यं त्वत्प्रसादतः । यथास्य जायते सौख्यं तापसस्यापि मे पितुः
tathā syātparamaṃ rūpaṃ tāruṇyaṃ tvatprasādataḥ | yathāsya jāyate saukhyaṃ tāpasasyāpi me pituḥ
اور تیرے کرم سے مجھے بھی اعلیٰ ترین حسن اور جوانی عطا ہو، تاکہ میرے تپسوی والد کے دل میں بھی مسرت پیدا ہو۔
Karṇotpalā
Type: kund
Scene: The devotee expands her request: not only a beautiful husband, but also her own youth and beauty, explicitly for her ascetic father’s happiness.
FAQs
A devotee’s prayer can be compassionate and family-centered, seeking welfare for elders alongside personal blessings.
The tīrtha is implied as the setting of Devī’s boon; the bathing-place (jalāśaya) is specified in the following instruction.
None here; it extends the requested boons (beauty, youth, and familial happiness).