Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 60
स चांडालोऽपि संपूज्यः सर्ववर्णोत्तमो भवेत् । यानि तीर्थानि लोकेऽस्मिन्गंगायाः सरितश्च याः
sa cāṃḍālo'pi saṃpūjyaḥ sarvavarṇottamo bhavet | yāni tīrthāni loke'smingaṃgāyāḥ saritaśca yāḥ
ಅವನು ಚಾಂಡಾಲನಾದರೂ ಪೂಜ್ಯನಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ; ಎಲ್ಲ ವರ್ಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠನೆಂದು ಪರಿಗಣಿಸಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಈ ಲೋಕದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಎಲ್ಲ ತೀರ್ಥಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಗಂಗೆಯ ಎಲ್ಲ ನದೀಧಾರೆಗಳು—
Unknown (contextual narrator within Brahmottara-khaṇḍa; likely a Purāṇic narrator addressing a listener)
Tirtha: Gaṅgā (as tīrtha-aggregate reference)
Type: river
Scene: A Rudrākṣa-Tripuṇḍra-bearing devotee, socially marginalized by dress, is honored by sages; in the background flows the Gaṅgā with many small tīrtha-ghāṭas symbolically present.
FAQs
Devotional marks and conduct are praised as spiritually elevating beyond birth-based status, emphasizing bhakti-centered dharma.
The verse gestures broadly to all tīrthas and the Gaṅgā’s sacred river-system rather than naming a single site.
Implicitly, the continued theme is Shaiva observance (Tripuṇḍra/Rudrākṣa), framed as conferring tīrtha-like purity.