Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 30
भूतप्रेतपिशाचानां दोषः सद्यः प्रणश्यति । तेनोदकेन संस्पृष्टे सर्वं नश्यति दुष्कृतम्
bhūtapretapiśācānāṃ doṣaḥ sadyaḥ praṇaśyati | tenodakena saṃspṛṣṭe sarvaṃ naśyati duṣkṛtam
The affliction caused by bhūtas, pretas, and piśācas is destroyed at once. When one is touched by that water, all evil deeds are wiped away.
Pulastya (contextual)
Tirtha: Rūpatīrtha
Type: kund
Listener: Yayāti
Scene: A pilgrim is sprinkled with tirtha-water; dark, smoky forms of bhūta-preta-piśāca recoil and vanish; the water glows, and a ledger-like symbolism of ‘duṣkṛta’ dissolves into light.
FAQs
Contact with tīrtha-jala is framed as immediate purification—removing both unseen afflictions and moral stain (duṣkṛta).
Rūpatīrtha (Arbuda Khaṇḍa, Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa), whose water is said to dispel spirit-afflictions and sin.
Being touched by the tīrtha-water (sprinkling/ablution/contact) is implied as a purificatory practice.