Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 36
निजे वर्षशते पूर्णे वालुकारेणवो यथा । निजमानेन या श्रद्धा ब्रह्मज्ञानसमुद्भवा । तेषां चेन्मानुषाणां च तन्मुक्तिः स्यादसंशयम्
nije varṣaśate pūrṇe vālukāreṇavo yathā | nijamānena yā śraddhā brahmajñānasamudbhavā | teṣāṃ cenmānuṣāṇāṃ ca tanmuktiḥ syādasaṃśayam
जसे स्वतःची शंभर वर्षे पूर्ण झाल्यावर वाळूचे कण मोजले जातात, तसेच स्वतःच्या मापाने ब्रह्मज्ञानातून उत्पन्न झालेली श्रद्धा—ती मनुष्यांतही असेल तर निःसंशय त्यांची मुक्ति होईल.
Sūta
Listener: Sages in the assembly (implied)
Scene: Sūta explains with a sand-grain simile: a human lifespan of a hundred years contrasted with countless grains; the focus shifts to a luminous heart-symbol representing śraddhā born of Brahman-knowledge.
FAQs
Liberation depends on śraddhā grounded in true knowledge, not on lifespan; the inner measure (nija-māna) is decisive.
Not specified in this verse; it functions as teaching within the Tīrthamāhātmya narrative.
No explicit rite is prescribed; the stress is on knowledge-born faith as the enabling condition for mokṣa.