Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40
लिप्यते न च पापेन कथंचित्तकृतेन च । नरो वा यदि वा नारी तत्तीर्थस्य प्रभावतः
lipyate na ca pāpena kathaṃcittakṛtena ca | naro vā yadi vā nārī tattīrthasya prabhāvataḥ
त्या तीर्थाच्या प्रभावाने पुरुष वा स्त्री—कशाही प्रकारे केलेल्या अपराधानेसुद्धा—पापाने लिप्त होत नाही।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating (deduced)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A luminous tīrtha—riverbank or sacred tank—radiating a protective aura; men and women stand within the glow, their dark ‘stains’ symbolically dissolving into light.
FAQs
It proclaims the exceptional ‘prabhāva’ of the sacred place: contact with the tīrtha overrides moral taint and grants purification.
The ‘that tīrtha’ refers to the Rudraśīrṣa-tīrtha/kuṇḍa praised in this adhyāya.
Implicitly, visiting/approaching the tīrtha is valorized; the explicit snāna prescription appears earlier in the passage.