Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 25
धौतपापं महापुण्यं शिवेन कथितं मम । प्राणत्यागं तु यः कुर्याज्जले वाग्नौ स्थलेऽपि वा
dhautapāpaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ śivena kathitaṃ mama | prāṇatyāgaṃ tu yaḥ kuryājjale vāgnau sthale'pi vā
धौतपापं महापुण्यं शिवेन मम कथितम्। यः कश्चित् तत्र जले वाग्नौ स्थले वा प्राणत्यागं करोति, स परां गतिं प्राप्नोति।
Unspecified narrator quoting Śiva (deduced from “śivena kathitaṃ”)
Tirtha: Dhautapāpa
Type: tirtha
Listener: King and/or addressed interlocutor in the frame narrative
Scene: Śiva instructs the narrator about Dhautapāpa’s greatness; the tīrtha is shown as a luminous landscape where the three modes ‘water, fire, land’ are symbolically present—river, sacrificial flame, and sacred ground—signifying that any death there is sanctified.
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The Purāṇas magnify certain tīrthas as liberative spaces where even the end of life is transfigured into spiritual attainment.
Dhautapāpa Tīrtha on the Revā (Narmadā).
No new ritual is prescribed; it is a phalaśruti asserting the extraordinary fruit associated with dying at the tīrtha.
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