Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 23
पूजया हि प्रणश्येत पापं वर्षसमुद्भवम् । नाशं याति न संदेहस्तमः सूर्योदये यथा
pūjayā hi praṇaśyeta pāpaṃ varṣasamudbhavam | nāśaṃ yāti na saṃdehastamaḥ sūryodaye yathā
En verdad, por el culto, el pecado acumulado durante un año se destruye—sin duda—como la oscuridad perece al amanecer del sol.
Sūta (contextual continuation)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee offers flowers, lamp, and water to a radiant deity at a tīrtha-temple as the first rays of sunrise dissolve the night, visually echoing ‘tamas’ destroyed by ‘sūryodaya’.
FAQs
Devotional worship purifies accumulated karmic burdens; the Purāṇa frames this certainty through a natural metaphor—darkness cannot remain before the sun.
The tīrtha context is Puṣpāditya’s presence in Nāgara-khaṇḍa Adhyāya 155; the verse itself gives a general phalaśruti without a place-name.
Pūjā (worship) as the means to destroy year-born sins, reinforced by a phalaśruti-style assurance.