Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 41
तत्र स ब्राह्मणो यावद्गंगातोयसमुद्भवम् । गंडूषं कुरुते वक्त्रे तावच्छुद्धो बभूव सः । उदरादखिलं तोयं निष्क्रांतं द्विजसत्तमाः
tatra sa brāhmaṇo yāvadgaṃgātoyasamudbhavam | gaṃḍūṣaṃ kurute vaktre tāvacchuddho babhūva saḥ | udarādakhilaṃ toyaṃ niṣkrāṃtaṃ dvijasattamāḥ
അവിടെ ആ ബ്രാഹ്മണൻ ഗംഗാജലത്തിൽ നിന്നുള്ള ഒരു ഗണ്ഡൂഷം വായിൽ എടുത്തതുമാത്രം, ഉടൻ തന്നെ ശുദ്ധനായി; ഹേ ദ്വിജസത്തമാ, അവന്റെ ഉദരത്തിലെ മുഴുവൻ ജലവും പുറത്തേക്ക് ഒഴുകിപ്പോയി.
Narrator (contextual; addressing ‘dvijasattamāḥ’)
Tirtha: Viṣṇupadī Gaṅgā
Type: ghat
Listener: dvijottamāḥ (addressed within narration)
Scene: At the riverbank, the brāhmaṇa takes a gāṇḍūṣa of Gaṅgā-water; a miraculous purification occurs instantly, depicted as dark impurities leaving the body and the figure becoming radiant.
FAQs
Contact with a supremely sanctifying tīrtha—received with faith—purifies swiftly, removing inner impurity as well as outer defilement.
Viṣṇupadī Gaṅgā at the described kṣetra, whose water is portrayed as uniquely purifying.
Gaṇḍūṣa/ācamana with Gaṅgā water is highlighted as a purificatory act.