Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 4
अस्ति तस्याग्रतः कुण्डं स्वच्छोदकसुपूरितम् । मत्स्यकूर्मसमाकीर्णं पद्मिनीखंडमंडितम्
asti tasyāgrataḥ kuṇḍaṃ svacchodakasupūritam | matsyakūrmasamākīrṇaṃ padminīkhaṃḍamaṃḍitam
اُس کے سامنے ایک کُنڈ ہے جو شفاف اور پاک پانی سے لبریز ہے؛ مچھلیوں اور کچھوؤں سے بھرا ہوا، اور کنول کے گچھوں سے آراستہ ہے۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; specific speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Type: kund
Scene: A clear pond in front of the temple: transparent water, schools of fish, turtles surfacing, and dense lotus clusters; steps (ghāṭa) lead down for bathing; the shrine rises behind.
FAQs
A tīrtha is not only a physical site but a sanctified landscape whose purity and beauty support faith, worship, and inner cleansing.
A kuṇḍa situated before the sacred Śaiva presence described in Nāgarakhaṇḍa, Tīrthamāhātmya, Adhyāya 55.
The verse introduces the kuṇḍa as the setting for later prescriptions such as snāna (ritual bathing).