Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 15
पंचरात्रस्य मध्ये तु यः स्नानं च करिष्यति । श्राद्धं वा श्रद्धया युक्तस्तस्य स्यादक्षयं हि तत्
paṃcarātrasya madhye tu yaḥ snānaṃ ca kariṣyati | śrāddhaṃ vā śraddhayā yuktastasya syādakṣayaṃ hi tat
പഞ്ചരാത്ര വ്രതത്തിന്റെ മദ്ധ്യേ ആരെങ്കിലും പുണ്യസ്നാനം ചെയ്യുകയോ, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ശ്രദ്ധയോടെ ശ്രാദ്ധം നടത്തുകയോ ചെയ്താൽ—അവനു ആ കർമ്മം തീർച്ചയായും അക്ഷയമാകും.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic voice; speaker not explicit in this verse)
Type: ghat
Scene: Pilgrims bathe at a tīrtha at dawn; a householder performs śrāddha on the bank with darbha, piṇḍa, and water offerings, while priests guide the rite; the atmosphere suggests ‘akṣaya’ merit.
FAQs
Faithful performance of rites—especially bathing and śrāddha—during a sanctified period yields inexhaustible spiritual merit.
The verse emphasizes the merit of rite and timing; the exact tīrtha is implied by the surrounding chapter’s tīrtha-māhātmya setting but is not named here.
Perform snāna (ritual bathing) and/or śrāddha with śraddhā (faith) during the pañcarātra period for akṣaya (imperishable) results.