Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3
यो मामेतेषु तीर्थेषु स्नात्वा पश्यति मानवः । कीर्तयेत्कीर्तनान्नाम्ना स नूनं मोक्षमाप्नुयात्
yo māmeteṣu tīrtheṣu snātvā paśyati mānavaḥ | kīrtayetkīrtanānnāmnā sa nūnaṃ mokṣamāpnuyāt
यो मानव एतेषु तीर्थेषु स्नात्वा मां पश्यति, मम नाम कीर्तनैः स्तौति च, स नूनं मोक्षमवाप्नुयात्।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Type: kshetra
Listener: (implied) Śrī Devī and the audience of the māhātmya
Scene: A pilgrim bathes at a sacred ford, then approaches a Śiva shrine for darśana, hands folded, lips moving in nāma-kīrtana; the tīrtha landscape glows with sanctity.
FAQs
Purification through tīrtha-snānā joined with devotion through nāma-kīrtana culminates in mokṣa.
The verse refers broadly to “these tīrthas” in the ongoing compendium rather than naming one location.
Snāna (bathing) at the tīrthas and nāma-kīrtana (chanting/praising through the divine name).