Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 5
ब्रह्महत्या गवां वध्या तत्र तीर्थे युधिष्ठिर । प्रविशेन्न सदा भीता प्रविष्टापि क्षयं व्रजेत्
brahmahatyā gavāṃ vadhyā tatra tīrthe yudhiṣṭhira | praviśenna sadā bhītā praviṣṭāpi kṣayaṃ vrajet
হে যুধিষ্ঠিৰ! ব্ৰাহ্মণ-হত্যাৰ পাপ আৰু গোহত্যাৰ পাপ সেই তীৰ্থত কেতিয়াও প্ৰৱেশ নকৰে, সদায় ভীত হৈ থাকে; আৰু প্ৰৱেশ কৰিলেও সি বিনষ্ট হয়।
Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Dhauta-pāpa
Type: ghat
Listener: Yudhiṣṭhira
Scene: Personified Brahmahatyā and Go-vadha—dark, trembling figures—stand at the boundary of the shining ford, unable to cross; if they step in, they disintegrate into light.
FAQs
The tīrtha is exalted as so sanctifying that even the gravest sins are said to be unable to remain there.
Dhauta-pāpa tīrtha in the Revā Khaṇḍa.
No explicit rite is stated in this verse; it emphasizes the tīrtha’s purificatory supremacy (a prāyaścitta-like effect).