Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 1
श्रीमार्कण्डेय उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महीपाल परं तीर्थचतुष्टयम् । येषां दर्शनमात्रेण सर्वपापक्षयो भवेत्
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca | tato gacchenmahīpāla paraṃ tīrthacatuṣṭayam | yeṣāṃ darśanamātreṇa sarvapāpakṣayo bhavet
ശ്രീമാർക്കണ്ഡേയൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഹേ മഹീപാലാ, തുടർന്ന് പരമമായ തീർത്ഥചതുഷ്ടയത്തിലേക്ക് പോകണം; അവയുടെ ദർശനമാത്രം കൊണ്ടുതന്നെ സർവ്വപാപക്ഷയം സംഭവിക്കും।
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Tīrtha-catuṣṭaya on Revā (Kaubera–Vāruṇa–Yāmya–Vāyavya)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahīpāla (king)
Scene: Sage Mārkaṇḍeya instructs a king to proceed to a supreme quartet of tīrthas on the Narmadā; the river glows as a purifying boundary while pilgrims move in a deliberate circuit.
FAQs
Pilgrimage is transformative: certain tīrthas are so potent that even darśana alone is said to erase sin.
A “tīrtha-catuṣṭaya” (fourfold set of tīrthas) in the Revā Khaṇḍa; the names are introduced in the following verse.
A directive to go (gacchet) and obtain darśana of the four tīrthas.