Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 12
अनुसङ्गेन तीर्थस्य स्नाने स्नानफलं विदुः । नैव यात्राफलं तज्ज्ञाः शास्त्रोक्तं कल्मषापहम्
anusaṅgena tīrthasya snāne snānaphalaṃ viduḥ | naiva yātrāphalaṃ tajjñāḥ śāstroktaṃ kalmaṣāpaham
Orang yang mengetahui menyatakan: jika seseorang mandi di tīrtha hanya kerana ikut-ikutan secara kebetulan, dia memperoleh sekadar pahala mandi—bukan pahala penuh ziarah yang disebut śāstra sebagai penghapus dosa.
Uncertain from snippet (tīrtha-merit exposition; speaker not named here)
Tirtha: Revā snāna and Revā-yātrā (general)
Type: ghat
Scene: At a Narmadā ghāṭ: one person takes a quick bath while traveling; a learned pilgrim performs full yātrā—saṅkalpa, snāna, offering to river, darśana at a shrine—radiating a ‘sin-cleansing’ aura depicted as dark mist dissolving.
FAQs
Casual contact with a tīrtha gives limited benefit; full pilgrimage fruit arises from deliberate yātrā aligned with śāstra.
No named site; the teaching applies to tīrthas generally within the Revā Khaṇḍa.
It distinguishes snāna-phala (bathing merit) from yātrā-phala (pilgrimage merit) and notes the latter is śāstra-taught as sin-removing.