Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 46
तस्मादिमे पुण्यतमे नद्यौ देवनमस्कृते । एतयोः स्नानमात्रेण ब्रह्महत्यां व्यपोहति
tasmādime puṇyatame nadyau devanamaskṛte | etayoḥ snānamātreṇa brahmahatyāṃ vyapohati
เพราะฉะนั้น แม่น้ำทั้งสองนี้ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ยิ่งนัก โอ้ท่านผู้เป็นที่เทวะทั้งหลายถวายบังคม; เพียงอาบน้ำในสองสายนั้น ก็ยังขจัดบาปหนักถึงขั้นพราหมณ์ฆาต (พรหมหัตยา) ได้
Narrator (contextual, Vaiṣṇavakhaṇḍa—Ayodhyāmāhātmya; speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-nadī-tīrthas (Sarayū and associated companion stream/sangam in local tradition)
Type: sangam
Listener: deva-namaskṛta (addressed revered interlocutor)
Scene: Two luminous rivers at Ayodhyā, their waters shimmering with sanctity; pilgrims descend broad ghats, offering arghya as divine beings invisibly honor the stream; the idea of sin dissolving is shown as dark mist lifting from the bather.
FAQs
Contact with a supremely sanctified tīrtha—especially through snāna—has extraordinary purificatory power in Purāṇic dharma.
The two sacred rivers identified in context as Jāhnavī (Gaṅgā) and Sarayū, with emphasis on Sarayū at Ayodhyā.
Snāna (ritual bathing) in these rivers is said to remove even brahmahatyā-doṣa.