Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
अत्राहं चैव नि र्मुक्तः स्त्रीहत्योद्भवपातकात् । तस्मादत्रैव राजेंद्र तिष्ठामः पंचवासरान्
atrāhaṃ caiva ni rmuktaḥ strīhatyodbhavapātakāt | tasmādatraiva rājeṃdra tiṣṭhāmaḥ paṃcavāsarān
ইয়াতেই মই স্ত্ৰীহত্যাৰ পৰা উদ্ভৱ হোৱা পাতকৰ পৰা মুক্ত হৈছিলোঁ। সেয়ে, হে ৰাজেন্দ্ৰ, আমি ইয়াতেই পাঁচ দিন অৱস্থান কৰোঁ।
Bhīṣma
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dhṛtarāṣṭra (addressed as ‘rājendra’)
Scene: Bhīṣma, humbled, speaks of past wrongdoing and liberation; the group resolves to remain five days, setting up a camp or lodging near the shrine, with a mood of solemn purification.
FAQs
Holy places function as prāyaścitta (atonement): sincere presence in a powerful kṣetra is presented as capable of lifting grave karmic burdens.
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is implied as the ‘here’ where Bhīṣma experienced purification.
A prescribed observance is implied: to remain at the kṣetra for five days (pañca-vāsara), as part of tīrtha-based purification.