Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 31
ततः स रजकस्तत्र वस्त्राण्यादाय सर्वशः । प्रविष्टः सलिले तस्मिन्क्षालयामास वै द्विजाः
tataḥ sa rajakastatra vastrāṇyādāya sarvaśaḥ | praviṣṭaḥ salile tasminkṣālayāmāsa vai dvijāḥ
അപ്പോൾ ആ രജകൻ അവിടെ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന എല്ലാ വസ്ത്രങ്ങളും എടുത്ത് ആ ജലത്തിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ചു; ഹേ ദ്വിജന്മാരേ, അവൻ വാസ്തവത്തിൽ അവയെ കഴുകിത്തുടങ്ങി।
Narrator (addressing dvijāḥ)
Type: kund
Listener: dvijāḥ (vocative/address within narration)
Scene: At the pond’s edge, a washerman gathers heaps of garments, steps into the water up to the waist, and begins washing; brāhmaṇas watch from the bank, alert for what the sacred water will reveal.
FAQs
Tīrtha power is revealed through concrete dharmic action—purification is enacted, not merely discussed.
The same jalāśaya tīrtha into which the washerman enters to wash the garments.
Entering the tīrtha-water and washing/cleansing—an act paralleling ritual purification and bathing (snāna).