Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 32
शुक उवाच । योऽयं संदृश्यते दूराच्छमीगर्भे च पिप्पलः । एतस्मिंस्तिष्ठते वह्निरश्वत्थे सुरसत्तमाः
śuka uvāca | yo'yaṃ saṃdṛśyate dūrācchamīgarbhe ca pippalaḥ | etasmiṃstiṣṭhate vahniraśvatthe surasattamāḥ
Vẹt nói: “Cây pippala (aśvattha) kia thấy từ xa, lại đứng trong lòng cây śamī—chính trong cây aśvattha ấy, hỡi các bậc tối thắng trong chư thiên, Thần Lửa (Vahni) đang ngự.”
Śuka
Tirtha: Śamī-garbha-Aśvattha (tree-tīrtha motif)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devas (collectively addressed as surasattamāḥ)
Scene: The parrot points out a distant tree: an aśvattha growing within a śamī, and declares that Agni dwells inside that aśvattha; devas turn their gaze toward the indicated marvel.
FAQs
Divinity may dwell in seemingly ordinary natural forms; sacred geography includes holy trees as living abodes of cosmic powers like Agni.
The verse is within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya (Adhyāya 90) and frames a local sacred setting marked by the śamī–aśvattha tree and the presence of Agni.
No explicit rite is stated here; it establishes the sacred locus (tree-abode of Agni) that later supports tīrtha-related merit.
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