Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 94
विमुक्तः सर्वपापेभ्यः शीतरश्मिरभूत्सुखी । श्रूयते नृप पौराणी गाथा गीता महर्षिभिः
vimuktaḥ sarvapāpebhyaḥ śītaraśmirabhūtsukhī | śrūyate nṛpa paurāṇī gāthā gītā maharṣibhiḥ
സകലപാപങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നു വിമുക്തനായ ശീതകിരണനായ സോമൻ (ചന്ദ്രൻ) സന്തുഷ്ടനായി. ഹേ രാജാവേ, മഹർഷികൾ പാടിയ ഈ പുരാതന പൗരാണിക ഗാഥ ശ്രവിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു.
Vyāsa (deduced, narrative voice addressing a king)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (Revā/Narmadā complex)
Type: kshetra
Listener: King (nṛpa), addressed as ‘Bhārata’ in the sequence
Scene: Soma (the Moon-god), cooled and serene, listens as great ṛṣis chant an ancient Purāṇic gāthā to a king; the river Revā is suggested as a sacred backdrop.
FAQs
Purification leads to restoration of well-being; the Purāṇas frame liberation as both moral cleansing and renewed joy.
The preceding ‘this tīrtha’ context in Revā Khaṇḍa, associated in the passage with Soma’s expiation and Soma-nātha.
No new prescription here; it concludes the narrative result—Soma’s freedom from sin—endorsed by seer-tradition.