Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 65
तस्मात्ते कीर्तयिष्यामि प्रायश्चित्तं विशुद्धये । दानं चैव महाभाग येन कुष्ठं प्रणश्यति
tasmātte kīrtayiṣyāmi prāyaścittaṃ viśuddhaye | dānaṃ caiva mahābhāga yena kuṣṭhaṃ praṇaśyati
അതുകൊണ്ട്, ഹേ മഹാഭാഗ, സമ്പൂർണ്ണ ശുദ്ധിക്കായുള്ള പ്രായശ്ചിത്തവും കുഷ്ഠം നശിപ്പിക്കുന്ന ദാനവും ഞാൻ നിന്നോട് പ്രസ്താവിക്കുന്നു.
Hari
Scene: A teacher-sage addressing a devoted listener, announcing a purificatory expiation and a specific charitable gift that removes leprosy; ritual implements and a donation scene implied.
FAQs
Purification is achieved through dharma-based expiation and selfless giving; dāna transforms suffering into spiritual renewal.
The verse is embedded in a tīrtha-māhātmya framework, but the specific tīrtha is not named in this shloka.
Prāyaścitta (expiation) and dāna (charitable giving) are explicitly promised as the means to destroy kuṣṭha.