Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 94
विमुक्तः सर्वपापेभ्यः शीतरश्मिरभूत्सुखी । श्रूयते नृप पौराणी गाथा गीता महर्षिभिः
vimuktaḥ sarvapāpebhyaḥ śītaraśmirabhūtsukhī | śrūyate nṛpa paurāṇī gāthā gītā maharṣibhiḥ
تمام گناہوں سے آزاد ہو کر شیتل کرنوں والا چاند خوش ہو گیا۔ اے راجا! یہ قدیم پورانک گاتھا سنی جاتی ہے، جو مہارشیوں نے گائی ہے۔
Vyāsa (deduced, narrative voice addressing a king)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (Revā/Narmadā complex)
Type: kshetra
Listener: King (nṛpa), addressed as ‘Bhārata’ in the sequence
Scene: Soma (the Moon-god), cooled and serene, listens as great ṛṣis chant an ancient Purāṇic gāthā to a king; the river Revā is suggested as a sacred backdrop.
FAQs
Purification leads to restoration of well-being; the Purāṇas frame liberation as both moral cleansing and renewed joy.
The preceding ‘this tīrtha’ context in Revā Khaṇḍa, associated in the passage with Soma’s expiation and Soma-nātha.
No new prescription here; it concludes the narrative result—Soma’s freedom from sin—endorsed by seer-tradition.