Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8
तथेति भगवानुक्त्वा तीर्थे तत्रावसन्मुदा । तदाप्रभृति तत्तीर्थं विख्यातं वसुधातले । स्नानेनैकेन राजेन्द्र पापसङ्घं व्यपोहति
tatheti bhagavānuktvā tīrthe tatrāvasanmudā | tadāprabhṛti tattīrthaṃ vikhyātaṃ vasudhātale | snānenaikena rājendra pāpasaṅghaṃ vyapohati
ព្រះមានព្រះបន្ទូលថា «តថេតិ—ដូច្នោះហើយ» ហើយបានស្នាក់នៅទីរថៈនោះដោយសេចក្តីរីករាយ។ ចាប់តាំងពីពេលនោះមក ទីរថៈនោះល្បីល្បាញលើផែនដី។ ឱ ព្រះរាជាធិរាជ ដោយងូតទឹកតែម្តងនៅទីនោះ ក៏អាចបំបាត់ក្រុមបាបជាច្រើនបាន។
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Śaṅkara-āvāsa Revā-tīrtha (Surabhī-prārthita)
Type: ghat
Listener: Rājendra (addressed as ‘rājendra’)
Scene: Śiva joyfully takes residence at the tīrtha; the landscape brightens, devas shower flowers; later pilgrims bathe once in the waters, dark ‘sin’ motifs dissolving into light.
FAQs
Divine presence transforms geography into grace; a tīrtha becomes a practical path of purification for ordinary people.
Gopāreśvara Tīrtha, sanctified by the Lord’s dwelling and famed for sin-dispelling bath.
Snāna (ritual bath) at the tīrtha—said to remove a great accumulation of sins even with a single bath.