Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 14
अहं भर्त्रा वियुक्ता च पुत्रहीना सुदुःखिता । अथ सा निर्गता तस्मात्सलिलान्नृपसत्तम
ahaṃ bhartrā viyuktā ca putrahīnā suduḥkhitā | atha sā nirgatā tasmātsalilānnṛpasattama
میں اپنے شوہر سے جدا اور بے اولاد ہوں، اور شدید غمگین ہوں۔ اے بادشاہوں میں بہترین، پھر وہ اس پانی سے باہر نکل آئی۔
Narrator (contextual; continuing Gautamī’s account to the king)
Tirtha: Arbuda tīrtha-salila (unspecified water-body)
Type: kund
Listener: A king (nṛpasattama explicitly addressed in this verse)
Scene: Gautamī rises from the water, wet hair and garments, face heavy with separation and childlessness; the bank is quiet, the air charged with impending wonder.
FAQs
It frames personal suffering within a tīrtha narrative, preparing the revelation that sacred places can transform sorrow through divine dispensation.
A water-tīrtha in the Arbuda Khaṇḍa context; the surrounding passage attributes extraordinary efficacy to this sacred water.
Implied is contact with the sacred water (snāna/immersion), though no explicit procedural injunction is stated in this verse.