Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 42
मुनिर्नाम ददौ तस्यै धूतपापेति चार्थवत् । यन्नामोच्चारणेनापि कंपते पातकावली
munirnāma dadau tasyai dhūtapāpeti cārthavat | yannāmoccāraṇenāpi kaṃpate pātakāvalī
Sang muni mengurniakan kepadanya nama yang penuh makna—“Dhūtāpāpā” (dia yang telah menggugurkan dosa). Dengan sekadar menyebut nama itu pun, himpunan dosa menjadi gementar.
Skanda (deduced narrative voice in Kāśīkhaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Dhūtāpāpā (as a personified purifier within Kāśī legend)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Sage Vedaśiras performs a naming rite, bestowing ‘Dhūtāpāpā’; the very syllables appear as radiant script in the air while shadowy forms of sins recoil and tremble at the sound.
FAQs
Nāma-mahimā: a sacred name, charged with meaning and sanctity, is portrayed as powerful enough to shake and dispel sin.
The immediate focus is the person/name Dhūtāpāpā within Kāśī-khaṇḍa; the larger sacred geography is Kāśī, famed for pāpa-kṣaya (sin-removal).
Implicit practice: nāma-ucchāraṇa (repetition/utterance of the sacred name) as a means of pāpa-kṣaya.