स्नातो दशहरायां यः पूजयेल्लिंगमुत्तमम् । भक्त्या दशाश्वमेधेशं न तं गर्भदशा स्पृशेत्
snāto daśaharāyāṃ yaḥ pūjayelliṃgamuttamam | bhaktyā daśāśvamedheśaṃ na taṃ garbhadaśā spṛśet
Whoever, after bathing on Daśaharā, worships with devotion the supreme liṅga—Daśāśvamedheśa—will not be touched again by the condition of dwelling in the womb.
Skanda
Tirtha: Daśāśvamedha / Daśāśvamedheśa
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee, freshly bathed, approaches the liṅga with bilva and water; the womb-cycle is symbolically shown as a fading shadow behind, while a calm light surrounds the shrine.
Devotional worship joined with tīrtha-bathing is framed as a mokṣa-oriented practice that ends the cycle of rebirth.
Daśāśvamedheśa liṅga at the Daśāśvamedha sacred area in Kāśī.
Snāna on Daśaharā followed by bhakti-pūjā of the Daśāśvamedheśa liṅga.