Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 25
लक्ष्मतीर्थस्य तोये स सर्वपातकनाशने । सानुजो मासमेकं तु सस्नौ नियमपूर्वकम्
lakṣmatīrthasya toye sa sarvapātakanāśane | sānujo māsamekaṃ tu sasnau niyamapūrvakam
لکشمی تیرتھ کے پاک پانی میں—جو تمام گناہوں کو مٹا دیتا ہے—وہ اپنے چھوٹے بھائیوں سمیت پورا ایک مہینہ مقررہ نِیَم کے مطابق غسل کرتا رہا۔
Narrator (Purāṇic narration of vrata-like bathing regimen)
Tirtha: Lakṣmī-tīrtha
Type: kund
Scene: At a serene coastal/lagoon-like tīrtha, Yudhiṣṭhira with his younger brothers performs dawn bathing for a month—wet garments, folded hands, ascetic restraint, and a quiet aura of expiation; the tīrtha is framed as Lakṣmī’s sanctified waters.
FAQs
Sustained practice (a month of disciplined bathing) is praised as a potent means of purification and merit at a sin-destroying tīrtha.
Lakṣmī-tīrtha, whose waters are described as sarva-pātaka-nāśana (destroyers of all sins).
A month-long regimen of snāna performed niyama-pūrvaka (with vowed observances).