Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 44
सहस्रं साधिकं किंचित्त्रिकमैतज्जपन्यमी । मासं बहिः प्रतिदिनं महाघादपि मुच्यते
sahasraṃ sādhikaṃ kiṃcittrikamaitajjapanyamī | māsaṃ bahiḥ pratidinaṃ mahāghādapi mucyate
Cette triade doit être répétée en japa un peu plus de mille fois. Si l’on l’accomplit chaque jour pendant un mois—au dehors—on est délivré même d’un grand péché.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically Skanda instructing Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A practitioner stands or sits in an open courtyard outside the home, counting japa with a mālā; a calendar-like moon cycle subtly indicates ‘one month’; dark smoke-like forms of ‘sin’ dissipate into the air.
FAQs
Steady daily mantra-japa, done with discipline, is praised as a powerful purifier capable of removing even grave demerit.
The instruction belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī tradition; the verse itself highlights japa rather than a named tirtha.
Repeat the stated ‘triad’ slightly more than 1,000 times daily for one month, performed outside (bahih).