Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 39
मद्यमांसरतानां च यत्पापं जायते नृणाम् । तेन पापेन लिप्यामि यद्यहं नागमे पुनः
madyamāṃsaratānāṃ ca yatpāpaṃ jāyate nṛṇām | tena pāpena lipyāmi yadyahaṃ nāgame punaḥ
If I do not come here again, may I be stained by the sin that arises in men devoted to liquor and flesh—by that very sin may I be tainted.
Unspecified (contextual vow/utterance within Arbuda Khaṇḍa narration; likely a pilgrim or narrator-voice within the māhātmya)
FAQs
Pilgrimage is paired with self-restraint; the vow treats neglect of return as spiritually ruinous, comparable to socially and religiously censured addictions.
Arbuda-kṣetra is glorified by portraying return to the tīrtha as a binding devotional commitment.
No explicit ritual is prescribed; the emphasis is on ethical discipline and the vow of revisiting the sacred place.