Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 43
मूर्खस्यापि च पापस्य सर्वदोषान्वितस्य च । चतुर्वेदस्य मे कस्मात्तीर्थयात्रापरस्य च
mūrkhasyāpi ca pāpasya sarvadoṣānvitasya ca | caturvedasya me kasmāttīrthayātrāparasya ca
سواء أكان ذلك حتى لأحمقٍ آثمٍ، جامعٍ لكل العيوب—أم لمن أحاط بالويدات الأربع وتفرّغ لرحلة التيـرثا (الحجّ إلى المواضع المقدّسة)—فكيف ولماذا يكون الأمر كذلك في شأني؟
Puṣpa
Type: kshetra
Scene: A supplicant voice—either a pilgrim or a ritualist—questions a divine or authoritative figure: how can the same tīrtha-journey relate to both a fault-ridden sinner and a Veda-knower? The scene is contemplative, set near a sacred precinct with pilgrims and ascetics.
FAQs
It raises the dharmic question of spiritual eligibility (adhikāra): how divine grace and ritual fruit relate to virtue, learning, and pilgrimage.
No single site is named; instead, the verse references tīrtha-yātrā as a general dharmic practice celebrated throughout the Skanda Purana.
No new ritual is prescribed; it questions how the previously stated fruit applies across different moral and scholarly conditions.