Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 18
तीर्थं चैव सदाप्यऽत्र समागच्छतु चांबरात् । लोकानां पापनाशाय तथा त्वं कर्तुमर्हसि
tīrthaṃ caiva sadāpya'tra samāgacchatu cāṃbarāt | lokānāṃ pāpanāśāya tathā tvaṃ kartumarhasi
اور یہ تیرتھ سدا آسمانی لوک سے بھی یہاں آتا رہے؛ لوگوں کے گناہوں کے ناس کے لیے تمہیں یہ کام انجام دینا چاہیے۔
Brāhmaṇas (continuing address to Brahmā as prapitāmaha/vibhu)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra tīrtha (invoked/descending tīrtha)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvijottamas / sages (implied)
Scene: A supplicant addresses a deity, requesting that a celestial tīrtha descend and remain, radiating purifying light over gathered people.
FAQs
A tīrtha is portrayed as a channel of heavenly purity whose purpose is universal welfare—especially the removal of sin.
The verse praises ‘this tīrtha’ in the narrative setting; the specific name is not given in the excerpted line.
Not a specific rite, but an invocation: that the tīrtha’s sanctifying presence be continually established here for the benefit of all.