Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 23
मूढबुद्ध्या हि को नाम महीसागरसंगमम् । त्यजेच्च यत्र मोक्षश्च स्वर्गश्च करगोऽथ वा
mūḍhabuddhyā hi ko nāma mahīsāgarasaṃgamam | tyajecca yatra mokṣaśca svargaśca karago'tha vā
Who, unless utterly deluded, would abandon the confluence of land and ocean—where liberation and heaven are, as it were, held in one’s hand?
Hārīta
Tirtha: Mahī-sāgara-saṅgama
Type: sangam
Listener: Śātātapa and/or the fearful group
Scene: A sweeping coastal vista where the land meets the ocean; a sage gestures toward the horizon, declaring the saṅgama’s power; pilgrims stand awed, with waves and a luminous sky suggesting liberation.
FAQs
Do not abandon a divinely empowered tīrtha; sacred geography can become a direct means to heavenly and liberating merit.
A mahī–sāgara saṅgama (land–ocean confluence) tīrtha, within the chapter’s Stambhatīrtha-centered pilgrimage setting.
No explicit rite is named here; it extols the inherent salvific potency of the tīrtha itself.