तत्राश्रमवरे स्नात्वा पश्यन्तो रूपमात्मनः । कामेन सदृशं सर्वे विस्मयं परमं गताः
tatrāśramavare snātvā paśyanto rūpamātmanaḥ | kāmena sadṛśaṃ sarve vismayaṃ paramaṃ gatāḥ
There, having bathed at that excellent hermitage, they beheld their own forms—each resembling Kāma, the god of beauty—and all were seized with the greatest astonishment.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Āśrama-vara-snānīya tīrtha (within Prabhāsa)
Type: kund
Listener: Devī
Scene: At the hermitage bathing spot, sages emerge from the water transformed—faces radiant, bodies youthful and symmetrical, likened to Kāma; they gaze at their reflections in the water with astonishment; hermitage trees and a small shrine frame the scene.
Contact with a tīrtha through snāna can symbolically and karmically ‘refine’ the person—outer change mirrors inner purification.
The bathing place at an excellent āśrama associated with the Piṅgalī river region in Prabhāsa Kṣetra.
Snāna (ritual bathing) at the tīrtha/āśrama is the stated practice producing the described benefit.