Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 12
अनुसङ्गेन तीर्थस्य स्नाने स्नानफलं विदुः । नैव यात्राफलं तज्ज्ञाः शास्त्रोक्तं कल्मषापहम्
anusaṅgena tīrthasya snāne snānaphalaṃ viduḥ | naiva yātrāphalaṃ tajjñāḥ śāstroktaṃ kalmaṣāpaham
Les sages déclarent que, si l’on se baigne dans un tīrtha seulement par association fortuite, on n’obtient que le fruit du bain, non le fruit du pèlerinage, que les śāstras disent effaceur de souillures.
Uncertain from snippet (tīrtha-merit exposition; speaker not named here)
Tirtha: Revā snāna and Revā-yātrā (general)
Type: ghat
Scene: At a Narmadā ghāṭ: one person takes a quick bath while traveling; a learned pilgrim performs full yātrā—saṅkalpa, snāna, offering to river, darśana at a shrine—radiating a ‘sin-cleansing’ aura depicted as dark mist dissolving.
FAQs
Casual contact with a tīrtha gives limited benefit; full pilgrimage fruit arises from deliberate yātrā aligned with śāstra.
No named site; the teaching applies to tīrthas generally within the Revā Khaṇḍa.
It distinguishes snāna-phala (bathing merit) from yātrā-phala (pilgrimage merit) and notes the latter is śāstra-taught as sin-removing.