Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 47
तिर्य्यग्योनिगता ये च ये च कीटत्वमागताः । स्नानमात्रेण ते सर्वे मुक्तिं यांति न संशयः
tiryyagyonigatā ye ca ye ca kīṭatvamāgatāḥ | snānamātreṇa te sarve muktiṃ yāṃti na saṃśayaḥ
Those who have gone into animal wombs, and those who have come to the state of insects—even they all, by bathing alone, go to liberation; of this there is no doubt.
Skanda (deduced from Dvārakā Māhātmya narrative context)
Tirtha: Gomatī–samudra-saṅgama (Dvārakā)
Type: sangam
Scene: At the river’s mouth where the Gomatī meets the ocean, pilgrims bathe; the scene subtly includes animals and tiny insects near the waterline, suggesting even non-human beings are uplifted by the tirtha’s power; distant Dvārakā shrines and sea-waves frame the sanctity.
FAQs
The māhātmya emphasizes the extraordinary salvific power attributed to tīrtha-snāna at a supremely sacred confluence.
The Gomatī–Ocean confluence (Gomatī-udadhi-saṅgama) celebrated in Dvārakā Māhātmya.
Snāna (ritual bathing/immersion) at the tīrtha, described as sufficient by itself for liberation in this phalaśruti.