Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 12
युधिष्ठिर उवाच । व्याधिं सत्त्वक्षयं मोहं ज्ञात्वा वर्णा द्विजोत्तम । पापेभ्यो विप्रमुच्यन्ते केन तत्साधनं वद
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | vyādhiṃ sattvakṣayaṃ mohaṃ jñātvā varṇā dvijottama | pāpebhyo vipramucyante kena tatsādhanaṃ vada
யுதிஷ்டிரன் கூறினான்—த்விஜர்களில் சிறந்தவரே! பல வர்ணத்தார் நோய், சத்துவக் குறைவு, மயக்கம் ஆகியவற்றை உணர்ந்தபின், எந்த வழியால் பாவங்களில் இருந்து விடுபடுவர்? அந்த சாதனத்தைச் சொல்லுங்கள்।
Yudhiṣṭhira
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mārkaṇḍeya (addressed as dvijottama)
Scene: Yudhiṣṭhira, thoughtful and burdened, asks a venerable sage; faint symbolic shadows of illness and confusion hover behind common people, while the sage’s calm presence suggests a remedy through dharma.
FAQs
Self-awareness of decline and delusion should lead one to seek a dharmic remedy that purifies sin.
No specific tīrtha is named in this question verse, though the wider Revā Khaṇḍa frames teachings in the sacred geography of the Narmadā (Revā).
A request is made for the sādhana (means); the specific prescriptions appear in the following replies.