Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 48
माण्डव्य उवाच । अहं यादृक्त्वया प्रोक्तस्तादृगेव न संशयः । पापात्मा मूढबुद्धिश्च अस्पृश्यः सर्वदेहिनाम्
māṇḍavya uvāca | ahaṃ yādṛktvayā proktastādṛgeva na saṃśayaḥ | pāpātmā mūḍhabuddhiśca aspṛśyaḥ sarvadehinām
Māṇḍavya berkata: “Seperti yang engkau katakan tentang diriku, demikianlah aku sebenarnya, tanpa syak. Aku berhati dosa, berakal keliru, dan aku ini aspṛśya—yang tidak patut disentuh—bagi semua makhluk berjasad.”
Māṇḍavya
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame assumed; not explicit here)
Scene: Māṇḍavya, with downcast eyes, speaks in calm resignation, acknowledging the harsh description; the atmosphere is penitential and still.
FAQs
Humility and truthful self-assessment are the starting points for purification; acknowledging one’s faults prepares one for dharmic correction and tīrtha-grace.
This verse sits within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narrative context; the specific tīrtha is not named in this single śloka excerpt.
No direct ritual (snāna, dāna, japa) is prescribed in this verse; it establishes the moral condition of the speaker within a tīrtha-māhātmya frame.