Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 20
तस्मिंस्तीर्थे महादेवं स्थापयित्वा दिवं गतः । तदाप्रभृति तत्पार्थ कम्बुतीर्थमिति श्रुतम् । विख्यातं सर्वलोकेषु महापातकनाशनम्
tasmiṃstīrthe mahādevaṃ sthāpayitvā divaṃ gataḥ | tadāprabhṛti tatpārtha kambutīrthamiti śrutam | vikhyātaṃ sarvalokeṣu mahāpātakanāśanam
तस्मिंस्तीर्थे महादेवं स्थापयित्वा दिवं गतः। तदाप्रभृति तत्पार्थ कम्बुतीर्थमिति श्रुतं, विख्यातं सर्वलोकेषु महापातकनाशनम्।
Narrator (Mārkaṇḍeya, contextually)
Tirtha: Kambu-tīrtha
Type: ghat
Listener: Pārtha
Scene: A concluding etiological scene: the installer ascends to heaven after establishing Mahādeva; below, the river ford is shown with a small shrine, pilgrims bathing, and a banner naming 'Kambu-tīrtha' as sin-destroying.
FAQs
A tīrtha becomes spiritually potent through dharmic acts like Śiva-pratiṣṭhā, and such places are celebrated as destroyers of heavy sins.
Kambu-tīrtha, renowned across the worlds as mahāpātaka-nāśana (destroyer of great sins).
The foundational act is installing Mahādeva at the tīrtha; the verse also frames the tīrtha’s ongoing merit for pilgrims.
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