Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 25
ये स्नानमाचरिष्यंति तीर्थेऽस्मिन्नियमान्विताः । ते यांति परमां सिद्धिं ब्रह्मणः परमं पदम्
ye snānamācariṣyaṃti tīrthe'sminniyamānvitāḥ | te yāṃti paramāṃ siddhiṃ brahmaṇaḥ paramaṃ padam
जे नियमयुक्त होऊन या तीर्थात स्नान करतात, ते परम सिद्धीला पोहोचतात—ब्रह्माच्या परम पदाला प्राप्त होतात.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa tīrtha (snāna-sthāna)
Type: ghat
Listener: Pilgrimage audience/ṛṣi assembly (implied)
Scene: Pilgrims bathe at the Prabhāsa tīrtha with visible signs of observance—simple clothing, calm faces, prayer beads; above them a luminous, formless radiance symbolizes brahma-pada, suggesting attainment beyond ritual into transcendence.
FAQs
Pilgrimage rituals bear their highest fruit when joined with ethical discipline (niyama), culminating in liberation-oriented attainment.
This tīrtha in Prabhāsa Kṣetra associated with Sarasvatī in Adhyāya 270.
Snāna at the tīrtha, explicitly to be done with niyamas (vows/observances).