Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 58
पञ्चस्रोताः स्थिता तत्र पञ्चपातकनाशनी । नदीनां प्रवरा सा तु ब्रह्मभूता सरस्वती
pañcasrotāḥ sthitā tatra pañcapātakanāśanī | nadīnāṃ pravarā sā tu brahmabhūtā sarasvatī
तेथे ती पाच प्रवाहांसह स्थित आहे, जी पाच महापातकांचा नाश करते. नद्यांमध्ये ती श्रेष्ठ—ब्रह्मस्वरूपा सरस्वती.
Aśarīriṇī Vāk (continuing instruction)
Tirtha: Sarasvatī (Prabhāsa)
Type: ghat
Listener: Rāma
Scene: Sarasvatī as a radiant river-goddess with veena stands at a confluence-like spread of five channels; pilgrims bathe; the water glows with scriptural light, suggesting Brahman-nature.
FAQs
Contact with a truly sanctified tīrtha is portrayed as spiritually transformative, capable of dissolving even the gravest moral burdens.
Sarasvatī at Prabhāsa, described as five-streamed (pañca-srotas).
Implicitly, tīrtha-sevā such as snāna (ritual bathing) in Sarasvatī, since she is declared destroyer of the five great sins.