Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 8
स्नानं पलसहस्रेण पंचामृतरसेन यः । करोति भक्त्या मर्त्यो वै मुच्यते स ऋणत्रयात्
snānaṃ palasahasreṇa paṃcāmṛtarasena yaḥ | karoti bhaktyā martyo vai mucyate sa ṛṇatrayāt
जो मर्त्य भक्तीने पंचामृतरसाने हजार पल प्रमाण स्नान करतो, तो निश्चयाने ऋणत्रयातून मुक्त होतो।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Vṛhaspatīśvara (Prabhāsa-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Priests and devotees pour streams of pañcāmṛta—milk, curd, ghee, honey, sugar-water—over a liṅga, with measured heaps of offerings indicating ‘sahasra-pala’; the scene radiates cleansing light as symbolic chains of debt fall away.
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Devotional ritual action, when performed with sincerity, removes deep karmic obligations and purifies one’s life-duty.
Prabhāsakṣetra (Prabhāsa), within the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa of the Skanda Purāṇa.
A devotional bath (snāna) performed with pañcāmṛta in a prescribed measure (a thousand palas).