Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 71
सापि नम्रमुखी तादृक्तेन शप्ता तथैव च । संजाता खण्डकाकारा तेन खण्डशिला स्मृता
sāpi namramukhī tādṛktena śaptā tathaiva ca | saṃjātā khaṇḍakākārā tena khaṇḍaśilā smṛtā
وہ بھی—سر جھکائے ہوئے—اسی طرح اس کے شاپ سے دوچار ہوئی؛ اور ٹکڑوں جیسی صورت اختیار کر گئی۔ اسی لیے وہ ‘کھنڈ شِلا’ (ٹوٹا ہوا پتھر) کے نام سے یاد کی جاتی ہے۔
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Khaṇḍaśilā
Type: kund
Listener: Dvija-s
Scene: A sorrowful goddess/figure with downcast face stands as Kāmadeva pronounces a curse; her form becomes a fractured stone, settling as a revered śilā at the shrine, with devotees later offering flowers to the broken stone.
FAQs
Purāṇic sacred geography often encodes moral-causal events; even a curse becomes a marker that sanctifies a place and its memory.
Khaṇḍaśilā—presented as a sacralized stone/spot whose very name arises from the narrative.
No direct rite is prescribed here; it provides the sthala-name origin that later supports worship practices.