Adhyaya 222
This adhyāya is a brief theological and ritual instruction spoken in divine voice (“Īśvara said”). It points to a liṅga established by Rukmavatī and proclaims its glory as universally pacifying—destroying sins and granting worshippers the results they desire. It then lays down a practical pilgrimage order: bathe at the connected mahātīrtha, carefully perform the liṅga’s ritual bathing and abhiṣeka (samplāvana), and complete the observance with dāna—gifts of wealth to brāhmaṇas as the text’s normative recipients. In this way, place (tīrtha), icon (liṅga), disciplined action (snāna and abhiṣeka), and regulated generosity (dāna) are joined into a single soteriological logic: purification from transgressions and the attainment of aims through devoted practice.
Shlokas
Verse 1
ईश्वर उवाच । तत्रैव संस्थितं लिंगं रुक्मवत्या प्रतिष्ठितम् । सर्वपापोपशमनं सर्वकामफलप्रदम्
Īśvara said: “Right there stands a Liṅga, established by Rukmavatī—one that pacifies all sins and bestows the fruits of every worthy desire.”
Verse 2
तत्र स्नात्वा महातीर्थे लिंगं संप्लाव्य यत्नतः । विप्रेभ्यो दापयेद्वित्तं मुच्यते सर्वपातकैः
Having bathed there in that great tīrtha, and carefully laved the Liṅga with water, one should give wealth in charity to the brāhmaṇas—thereby one is freed from all grievous sins.
Verse 222
इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये रुक्मवतीश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम द्वाविंशत्युत्तरद्विशततमोऽध्यायः
Thus, in the revered Skanda Mahāpurāṇa—within the Saṃhitā of eighty-one thousand ślokas—here concludes the two-hundred-and-twenty-second chapter in the seventh, the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa, in the first part, the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya, entitled “The Description of the Greatness of Rukmavatīśvara.”