Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 35
पूजयिष्यंति मां मर्त्यास्तेषां छेत्स्यामि दुष्कृतम् । सर्वतीर्थमयी यश्च सर्वर्तुकवनेस्थितः
pūjayiṣyaṃti māṃ martyāsteṣāṃ chetsyāmi duṣkṛtam | sarvatīrthamayī yaśca sarvartukavanesthitaḥ
“जो मर्त्य मेरी पूजा करेंगे, उनके दुष्कर्मों को मैं काट दूँगी। और यह स्थान, सर्वर्तुक-वन में स्थित, समस्त तीर्थों की शक्ति से युक्त है।”
Devī (Kolaṃbā / Rudrāṇī)
Tirtha: Sarvartuka-vana (with Rudrāṇī-kūpa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: the devotee/narrator and, by extension, future pilgrims
Scene: Devī promises: ‘I will cut away their evil deeds’; the forest-kṣetra is shown as a mandala of many tīrthas symbolically converging into the well and shrine.
FAQs
Devī-bhakti at a tīrtha purifies karma; some sites are praised as equivalent to all pilgrimage places combined.
Sarvartuka-vana and the Rudrāṇī-kūpa region, proclaimed ‘sarva-tīrtha-mayī’.
Pūjā of the Goddess, with the promised fruit of duṣkṛta (sin) removal.