Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
जपहोमपरो भक्त्या क्षणं ध्यात्वा च तिष्ठति । ज्वलमानात्तु कपिला तावत्कुण्डात्समुत्थिता
japahomaparo bhaktyā kṣaṇaṃ dhyātvā ca tiṣṭhati | jvalamānāttu kapilā tāvatkuṇḍātsamutthitā
“Chìm trong japa và homa với lòng bhakti, ngài dừng lại giây lát và nhập thiền. Bấy giờ Kapilā, rực cháy ánh quang minh, lập tức hiện khởi từ kuṇḍa (hố tế tự).”
Mārkaṇḍeya (narrating)
Tirtha: Kapilā Tīrtha
Type: kund
Listener: Rājā (Bhārata)
Scene: A blazing sacrificial altar: Brahmā (or a great sage-figure) performing homa, hands poised; from the fire-pit rises Kapilā, radiant and cow-formed, emerging in a burst of golden-red light; attendants recoil in awe.
FAQs
Devotional discipline—japa, homa, and meditation—invites divine manifestation and sanctifies space into a tīrtha.
Kapilā-tīrtha’s sanctity is rooted in the manifestation of Kapilā from a sacrificial kuṇḍa, forming the tīrtha’s origin story.
Japa (mantra recitation), homa (fire offering), and dhyāna (meditation) are explicitly referenced as the devotional context.