Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 49
प्राहुस्ते सार्धकृच्छ्रं वै फलं पूर्वं युधिष्ठिर । त्रिगुणं कृच्छ्रमाप्नोति रेवासागरसङ्गमे
prāhuste sārdhakṛcchraṃ vai phalaṃ pūrvaṃ yudhiṣṭhira | triguṇaṃ kṛcchramāpnoti revāsāgarasaṅgame
ഹേ യുധിഷ്ഠിര, മുമ്പ് നിന്നോട് ഫലം ‘സാർദ്ധ-കൃച്ഛ്രം’ എന്നു പറഞ്ഞിരുന്നു. എന്നാൽ റേവാ-സാഗര സംഗമത്തിൽ കൃച്ഛ്രഫലം ത്രിഗുണമായി ലഭിക്കുന്നു.
Unspecified (Revā Khaṇḍa narrative voice, addressing Yudhiṣṭhira)
Tirtha: Revā–Sāgara-saṅgama
Type: sangam
Listener: Yudhiṣṭhira
Scene: The Revā widens into an estuary meeting the sea; pilgrims offer arghya as waves roll in; a sage reminds Yudhiṣṭhira of earlier stated ‘sārdha-kṛcchra’ baseline and the new tripled Kṛcchra at the ocean confluence.
FAQs
The culmination-point of a sacred river—where it meets the ocean—is portrayed as exceptionally merit-bestowing.
Revā-sāgara-saṅgama: the confluence of the Narmadā (Revā) with the ocean.
A stated enhancement of expiatory merit: at the Revā–ocean confluence, the Kṛcchra fruit becomes threefold.