Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
भीष्म उवाच । गंगायामस्थिपातोऽत्र येषां संजायते नृणाम् । न तेषां नारको वह्निः प्रभवेन्मध्यवर्तिनाम्
bhīṣma uvāca | gaṃgāyāmasthipāto'tra yeṣāṃ saṃjāyate nṛṇām | na teṣāṃ nārako vahniḥ prabhavenmadhyavartinām
भीष्म बोले—यहाँ गंगा में जिन मनुष्यों की अस्थियाँ प्रवाहित की जाती हैं, उन पर नरक की अग्नि का प्रभाव नहीं पड़ता—चाहे वे मध्य-लोक के दुःख के अधिकारी ही क्यों न हों।
Bhīṣma
Tirtha: Gaṅgā
Type: river
Listener: Yudhiṣṭhira
Scene: Bhīṣma declares the protective power of consigning bones into the Gaṅgā: the infernal fire cannot touch such persons.
FAQs
Gaṅgā-related funerary rites are praised as powerful purifiers that avert hellish consequences and uplift the departed.
The Gaṅgā tīrtha—Gaṅgā as a sacred river and pilgrimage locus within the Nāgara-khaṇḍa’s tīrtha-glorification.
Asthi-visarjana/asthi-pāta—consigning the departed’s bones/ashes into the Gaṅgā.
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