Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 80
शेषकालेऽपि विप्रेन्द्र अज्ञानविहितादघात् । मुक्तिं प्राप्स्यत्यसंदिग्धं मम वाक्याद्द्विजोत्तम
śeṣakāle'pi viprendra ajñānavihitādaghāt | muktiṃ prāpsyatyasaṃdigdhaṃ mama vākyāddvijottama
حتى في الزمن الأخير (عند الموت)، يا سيدَ البراهمة، وإن وُجد إثمٌ فُعِلَ عن جهلٍ، فإنه سينالُ الموكشا بلا ريبٍ، بكلمتي أنا، يا أفضلَ ذوي الميلادين.
Śrī Bhagavān (Śiva)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijendra / dvijottama
Scene: Bhagavān’s solemn promise of liberation at the final moment; a symbolic scene shows an elderly devotee at death, mind fixed on the deity, with divine light dispelling shadowy ‘ajñāna’ forms.
FAQs
The Lord’s compassion at a tīrtha is portrayed as overriding even inadvertent faults, culminating in liberation.
The Śiva-associated tīrtha of Adhyāya 209 where snāna and pūjā are promised to yield healing and ultimate release.
The verse itself gives a salvific assurance; it is tied to the preceding acts of tīrtha snāna and worship.