Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 96
यथायथा नृत्यमाना स्वगात्रं विधुनोति च । तथातथा धुनोत्येव यत्पापं प्रकृतं पुरा
yathāyathā nṛtyamānā svagātraṃ vidhunoti ca | tathātathā dhunotyeva yatpāpaṃ prakṛtaṃ purā
അവൾ എങ്ങിനെ എങ്ങിനെ നൃത്തം ചെയ്ത് തന്റെ അവയവങ്ങളെ കുലുക്കുന്നുവോ, അങ്ങിനെ അങ്ങിനെ തന്നെ മുമ്പ് ചെയ്ത പാപങ്ങളെ ഉറപ്പായി ഊതി നീക്കുന്നു।
Sūta
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devoted woman dances in a sacred precinct; with each rhythmic shake of limbs, dark wisps symbolizing past sins fall away, while the tīrtha’s sanctity glows around her.
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Embodied devotion is purifying: sincere worship expressed through dance is depicted as actively cleansing past wrongdoing.
The Sāvitrī-devī sacred site within Nāgarakhaṇḍa, Tīrthamāhātmya, Adhyāya 192.
Devotional nṛtya (dance) before the Devī is presented as a purificatory act that removes prior sins.