Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 12
यम उवाच । मुच्यतामाशु तेनायं नानेयाश्चापरे जनाः । ये मृता मम तीर्थे वै सर्वपातकनाशने
yama uvāca | mucyatāmāśu tenāyaṃ nāneyāścāpare janāḥ | ye mṛtā mama tīrthe vai sarvapātakanāśane
Yama disse: «Que ele seja libertado imediatamente pelo poder desse tīrtha; e que não se traga mais ninguém para punição, pois os que morreram no meu tīrtha — destruidor de todos os pecados — não devem ser conduzidos ao castigo».
Yama (Dharmarāja/Vaivasvata)
Tirtha: Yama-tīrtha on Arbudācala (sarva-pātaka-nāśana)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Yamadūtas
Scene: Dharmarāja issues a compassionate decree: the sinner is unbound; yamadūtas halt, lowering their weapons; a radiant tīrtha aura is symbolically shown, as if the mountain’s sanctity reaches the court of Yama.
FAQs
A supremely sanctified tīrtha can nullify even heavy sins; divine justice (Yama) itself honors the higher purifying law of sacred places.
Yama’s own tīrtha on Arbudācala, explicitly praised as sarvapātakanāśana (destroyer of all sins).
Implicit prescription: association with the tīrtha (and even dying there) grants purification; no detailed rite is stated in this verse.