Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 20
ऊर्ध्वरेतास्ततस्तस्मिन्ससर्जादौ दधार तत् । वीर्यं वह्निमुखे चैव सोत्पपात गृहाद्बहिः
ūrdhvaretāstatastasminsasarjādau dadhāra tat | vīryaṃ vahnimukhe caiva sotpapāta gṛhādbahiḥ
پھر اُردھورتا پروردگار نے وہ تیز پیدا کیا؛ ابتدا میں اسے سنبھالے رکھا، اور وہ قوت اگنی کے منہ میں رکھ دی گئی۔ تب وہ گھر سے باہر کی طرف جست لگا کر نکل گیا۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Maheśvara, the ūrdhvaretas Lord, emits blazing potency; Agni receives it into his mouth as a contained sphere of light; immediately Agni (still in dove-body or as Agni) bursts out from the house to the open outside, carrying the tejas.
FAQs
Divine power is governed by cosmic order and entrusted to fitting carriers; even sacred energy moves through appointed channels.
No site is named in this verse; it narrates a mythic event within the chapter’s sacred-geography frame.
None directly; the verse describes the transfer of vīrya to Agni, a common Purāṇic motif linked to ritual fire symbolism.