Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 41
अगस्त्य उवाच । एवमुक्ते तु यक्षेण मुनिर्ध्यानस्थलोचनः । तं विविच्यानया भक्त्या अभिषेकं चकार सः
agastya uvāca | evamukte tu yakṣeṇa munirdhyānasthalocanaḥ | taṃ vivicyānayā bhaktyā abhiṣekaṃ cakāra saḥ
Agastya nói: Khi Yakṣa nói như vậy, vị hiền triết—đôi mắt an trú trong thiền định—quán xét người ấy, rồi với lòng sùng kính như thế đã cử hành nghi thức tắm rưới (abhiṣeka) cho y.
Agastya
Tirtha: Ayodhyā tīrtha-jala (unspecified water-source)
Type: ghat
Listener: Primary audience within the Purāṇic narration (contextual); immediate addressee is the narrative frame, while action is toward the Yakṣa
Scene: Agastya, eyes half-closed in meditation, assesses the yakṣa with compassionate discernment and begins the abhiṣeka rite, lifting a vessel of tīrtha-water.
FAQs
Meditative discernment joined with devotion becomes a channel for compassionate, transformative action.
Ayodhyā’s tīrtha-tradition is the setting; the consecration rite signals the sanctity of local sacred waters.
Abhiṣeka (consecratory bathing), performed as a purificatory rite for removing affliction.