Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
तत्राश्रमवरे स्नात्वा पश्यन्तो रूपमात्मनः । कामेन सदृशं सर्वे विस्मयं परमं गताः
tatrāśramavare snātvā paśyanto rūpamātmanaḥ | kāmena sadṛśaṃ sarve vismayaṃ paramaṃ gatāḥ
Ali, tendo-se banhado naquele excelente āśrama, contemplaram a própria forma—cada qual semelhante a Kāma, o deus da beleza—e todos foram tomados do mais alto assombro.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Āśrama-vara-snānīya tīrtha (within Prabhāsa)
Type: kund
Listener: Devī
Scene: At the hermitage bathing spot, sages emerge from the water transformed—faces radiant, bodies youthful and symmetrical, likened to Kāma; they gaze at their reflections in the water with astonishment; hermitage trees and a small shrine frame the scene.
FAQs
Contact with a tīrtha through snāna can symbolically and karmically ‘refine’ the person—outer change mirrors inner purification.
The bathing place at an excellent āśrama associated with the Piṅgalī river region in Prabhāsa Kṣetra.
Snāna (ritual bathing) at the tīrtha/āśrama is the stated practice producing the described benefit.