Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
स्नानं दानं जपो होमः स्वाध्यायो देवतार्चनम् । तस्य तीर्थस्य योगेन सर्वं कोटिगुणं भवेत्
snānaṃ dānaṃ japo homaḥ svādhyāyo devatārcanam | tasya tīrthasya yogena sarvaṃ koṭiguṇaṃ bhavet
സ്നാനം, ദാനം, ജപം, ഹോമം, സ്വാധ്യായം, ദേവതാര്ച്ചനം—ആ തീർത്ഥത്തിന്റെ മഹിമയോഗത്താൽ ഇവയൊക്കെയും കോടിഗുണം ഫലപ്രദമാകുന്നു।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Revā-khaṇḍa)
Type: tirtha
Listener: Yudhiṣṭhira (contextual interlocutor)
Scene: A serene river-ford on Revā where pilgrims bathe, offer lamps and water, recite mantras, and a homa fire burns on the bank; the atmosphere suggests ‘koti-guṇa’ sanctity radiating from the tīrtha.
FAQs
Place matters in Purāṇic dharma: when practices are performed at a sanctified tīrtha, their spiritual fruit is vastly magnified.
The unnamed but previously referenced Revā-khaṇḍa tīrtha; the verse praises its ‘tīrtha-yoga’—its special sanctifying potency.
Perform snāna, dāna, japa, homa, svādhyāya, and devatā-arcana at the tīrtha for multiplied merit.