Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 5
दन्तैर्द्रुतं समुत्पाट्य यावदाकर्षति द्विजाः । तावत्तज्जडमार्गेण तोयधारा विनिर्गता
dantairdrutaṃ samutpāṭya yāvadākarṣati dvijāḥ | tāvattajjaḍamārgeṇa toyadhārā vinirgatā
اس نے دانتوں سے فوراً اسے اکھاڑ کر کھینچا، اے دو بار جنم لینے والو؛ اسی لمحے اس سخت راستے کے ساتھ پانی کی دھارا پھوٹ نکلی۔
Sūta
Type: kund
Listener: dvijāḥ / dvijaśreṣṭhāḥ (addressed audience within the narration)
Scene: A thirsty cow uproots a tuft of grass with her teeth; at the very pull, a clear stream bursts from the earth along a newly formed rigid channel, startling nearby sages/Brāhmaṇas.
FAQs
When dharma’s conditions mature, grace can burst forth suddenly—turning an ordinary act into the revelation of a tīrtha.
Gomukha-tīrtha, whose water is described as emerging at the cow’s action.
None explicitly; the verse narrates the tīrtha’s emergence (prādurbhāva), foundational for later practices like snāna and pāna.