Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 40
यक्ष उवाच । वरं प्रयच्छसि यदि विप्रवर्य मदीप्सितम् । ममांगमतिदुर्गंधि शापाच्च नृपतेरभूत् । सुगन्धयितुं ब्रह्मर्षे तत्प्रसीद मुनीश्वर
yakṣa uvāca | varaṃ prayacchasi yadi vipravarya madīpsitam | mamāṃgamatidurgaṃdhi śāpācca nṛpaterabhūt | sugandhayituṃ brahmarṣe tatprasīda munīśvara
যক্ষই ক’লে: হে বিপ্ৰশ্ৰেষ্ঠ, যদি তুমি বৰ দিয়া, তেন্তে মোৰ ইচ্ছিত বৰ দিয়া। ৰজাৰ শাপৰ ফলত মোৰ দেহ অতি দুৰ্গন্ধময় হৈ পৰিছে। হে ব্ৰহ্মর্ষি, হে মুনীশ্বৰ, প্ৰসন্ন হওক—মোক সুগন্ধিত কৰক।
Yakṣa
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (tīrtha-jala referenced)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya
Scene: A yakṣa, distressed and ashamed, stands before sage Agastya with folded hands, pleading for release from a foul-smelling curse; the setting evokes a sacred grove near a tīrtha in Ayodhyā.
FAQs
Even curse-born afflictions can be purified through humility, right approach to sages, and divine-tīrtha grace.
Within Ayodhyā Māhātmya, the episode points toward a tīrtha-based purification, elaborated in the following verses.
A boon-request for purification; the specific method (abhiṣeka with tīrtha-water) appears next.