Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 36
यदा त्वं पृथिवीपाल स्वर्गं यास्यसि भूतलात् । तदात्र सलिले स्थाप्या मदग्रे यद्व्यवस्थितम्
yadā tvaṃ pṛthivīpāla svargaṃ yāsyasi bhūtalāt | tadātra salile sthāpyā madagre yadvyavasthitam
اے محافظِ زمین! جب تو اس بھوتل سے روانہ ہو کر سُوَرگ کو جائے گا، تب جو کچھ میرے سامنے یہاں مقرر کیا گیا ہے، اسی مقام پر اسی جل میں رکھ دینا۔
Śrī Devī
Type: ghat
Scene: A king addressed as ‘protector of earth’ receives a solemn instruction: at the destined time of departing to heaven, the arranged sacred object(s) are to be placed into the tīrtha-water at that very spot, with witnesses nearby.
FAQs
Dharmic safeguards are to be preserved beyond one’s lifetime through properly transmitted and ritually placed arrangements.
A local sacred spot ‘here’ is implied (atra), but the verse itself does not name the tīrtha; it functions within the Tīrthamāhātmya setting.
A jala-sthāpanā (placing/immersing in water) instruction is given for what was established before the Goddess, to be done upon the king’s departure.