Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
राजोवाच । अत्रागत्य नरो भक्त्या यः स्नानं कुरुते नरः । दशानामश्वमेधानां स प्राप्नोतु फलं शुभम्
rājovāca | atrāgatya naro bhaktyā yaḥ snānaṃ kurute naraḥ | daśānāmaśvamedhānāṃ sa prāpnotu phalaṃ śubham
ರಾಜನು ಹೇಳಿದರು— “ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದು ಭಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಸ್ನಾನ ಮಾಡುವವನು ಹತ್ತು ಅಶ್ವಮೇಧ ಯಜ್ಞಗಳ ಶುಭ ಫಲವನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯಲಿ।”
Rājā Bharata
Tirtha: Daśāśvamedhika
Type: ghat
Listener: Bhāminī
Scene: Bharata, in humility, asks that future devotees who bathe here gain the fruit of ten Aśvamedhas; the scene juxtaposes royal power with compassionate public benefaction at a sacred bathing spot near Somnātha.
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Sincere devotion can concentrate vast sacrificial merit into a simple tīrtha-practice, making dharma accessible through pilgrimage and purity.
Daśāśvamedhika Tīrtha at Prabhāsa-kṣetra.
Devotional bathing (snāna) at the tīrtha, promised to yield the fruit of ten Aśvamedhas.
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