Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 59
तथैव पुण्या मलतोयवाहां दृष्ट्वा पुनः कल्पपरिक्षयेऽपि । अम्बामिवार्यामनुकम्पमानामक्षीणतोयां विरुजां विशोकः
tathaiva puṇyā malatoyavāhāṃ dṛṣṭvā punaḥ kalpaparikṣaye'pi | ambāmivāryāmanukampamānāmakṣīṇatoyāṃ virujāṃ viśokaḥ
وكذلك، حين أعاين من جديد ذلك النهر المقدّس الذي تحمل مياهه الأدران وتزيل النجاسة—حتى عند انقضاء الدهر—أتحرّر من الحزن والمرض. إنها كأمّ كريمة تُفيض رحمةً وشفقة؛ مياهها لا تنفد، وتمنح العافية والسكينة.
Mārkaṇḍeya (inferred)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā)
Type: river
Listener: assembled sages / audience of the māhātmya
Scene: A serene, wide river with clear, unfailing waters; the devotee stands on the bank with folded hands, feeling grief and illness dissolve; the river is subtly personified as a compassionate mother-figure blessing the pilgrim.
FAQs
The tīrtha is compassionate and purifying; contact with it is portrayed as removing sorrow and affliction.
Revā/Narmadā as an eternal, unfailing purifier—central to Revā-khaṇḍa’s sacred geography.
No direct injunction; the verse implies the salvific value of darśana and association with the river’s waters.