Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 24
यत्पयः स्नानवस्त्रोत्थं भूमौ पतति पुत्रक । तेन ये तरुतां प्राप्तास्तेषांतृप्तिः प्रजायते
yatpayaḥ snānavastrotthaṃ bhūmau patati putraka | tena ye tarutāṃ prāptāsteṣāṃtṛptiḥ prajāyate
يا بُنيّ، ما يقطرُ من ماءٍ من ثوبِ الاغتسالِ فيقعُ على الأرضِ—به يَحصلُ الرِّضا لمن آلوا إلى حالِ الأشجار.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) speaking to the sages (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: A son/young inquirer (putraka)
Scene: At Prabhāsa’s seashore/ghāṭa, a pilgrim wrings a wet bathing cloth; droplets fall onto sand/earth, while faint ancestral forms—tree-spirits—receive satisfaction in the unseen realm.
FAQs
Even seemingly minor ritual remnants can carry karmic efficacy, reaching beings in difficult states of existence.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, as part of its māhātmya’s instruction on śrāddha and purity.
Water dripping from bathing cloth onto the earth is described as giving satisfaction to beings who have taken birth as trees.