Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 6
यम उवाच । मत्पुरं कथमायान्ति मनुजाः पापबृंहिताः । स्नानेनैकेन रेवायाः प्राप्यते वैष्णवं पदम्
yama uvāca | matpuraṃ kathamāyānti manujāḥ pāpabṛṃhitāḥ | snānenaikena revāyāḥ prāpyate vaiṣṇavaṃ padam
യമൻ പറഞ്ഞു— പാപഭാരത്തോടെ നിറഞ്ഞ മനുഷ്യർ എങ്ങനെ എന്റെ നഗരത്തിലേക്ക് വരുന്നു? റേവാ (നർമ്മദ)യിൽ ഒരിക്കൽ സ്നാനം ചെയ്താൽ തന്നെ വൈഷ്ണവപദം, അഥവാ വിഷ്ണുലോകം, ലഭിക്കുന്നു.
Yama
Tirtha: Revā
Type: river
Listener: His own court/attendants (implied) and the narrative audience via Mārkaṇḍeya
Scene: Yama, dark-hued and regal with daṇḍa, sits in his court; he looks perplexed as a purified soul bypasses his city; in the distance, the luminous Revā river is shown as the cause, with Viṣṇu’s abode symbolically above.
FAQs
Revā-snana is proclaimed as extraordinarily salvific—capable of overriding accumulated sin through tīrtha-grace.
Revā/Narmadā river as a supreme tīrtha.
Performing even a single bath (snāna) in the Revā.