Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 40
यक्ष उवाच । वरं प्रयच्छसि यदि विप्रवर्य मदीप्सितम् । ममांगमतिदुर्गंधि शापाच्च नृपतेरभूत् । सुगन्धयितुं ब्रह्मर्षे तत्प्रसीद मुनीश्वर
yakṣa uvāca | varaṃ prayacchasi yadi vipravarya madīpsitam | mamāṃgamatidurgaṃdhi śāpācca nṛpaterabhūt | sugandhayituṃ brahmarṣe tatprasīda munīśvara
Le Yakṣa dit : «Si tu accordes une grâce, ô le meilleur des brāhmaṇas, accorde ce que je désire. Mon corps est devenu d’une puanteur extrême à cause de la malédiction d’un roi. Ô brahmarṣi, sois favorable, ô seigneur des sages : rends-moi parfumé.»
Yakṣa
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (tīrtha-jala referenced)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya
Scene: A yakṣa, distressed and ashamed, stands before sage Agastya with folded hands, pleading for release from a foul-smelling curse; the setting evokes a sacred grove near a tīrtha in Ayodhyā.
FAQs
Even curse-born afflictions can be purified through humility, right approach to sages, and divine-tīrtha grace.
Within Ayodhyā Māhātmya, the episode points toward a tīrtha-based purification, elaborated in the following verses.
A boon-request for purification; the specific method (abhiṣeka with tīrtha-water) appears next.