Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8
तथेति भगवानुक्त्वा तीर्थे तत्रावसन्मुदा । तदाप्रभृति तत्तीर्थं विख्यातं वसुधातले । स्नानेनैकेन राजेन्द्र पापसङ्घं व्यपोहति
tatheti bhagavānuktvā tīrthe tatrāvasanmudā | tadāprabhṛti tattīrthaṃ vikhyātaṃ vasudhātale | snānenaikena rājendra pāpasaṅghaṃ vyapohati
Diciendo: «Así sea», el Bienaventurado Señor moró gozoso allí, en aquel tīrtha. Desde entonces, ese lugar sagrado se hizo célebre sobre la tierra. Oh rey de reyes, con un solo baño allí se disipa una multitud de pecados.
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Śaṅkara-āvāsa Revā-tīrtha (Surabhī-prārthita)
Type: ghat
Listener: Rājendra (addressed as ‘rājendra’)
Scene: Śiva joyfully takes residence at the tīrtha; the landscape brightens, devas shower flowers; later pilgrims bathe once in the waters, dark ‘sin’ motifs dissolving into light.
FAQs
Divine presence transforms geography into grace; a tīrtha becomes a practical path of purification for ordinary people.
Gopāreśvara Tīrtha, sanctified by the Lord’s dwelling and famed for sin-dispelling bath.
Snāna (ritual bath) at the tīrtha—said to remove a great accumulation of sins even with a single bath.