Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 44
सहस्रं साधिकं किंचित्त्रिकमैतज्जपन्यमी । मासं बहिः प्रतिदिनं महाघादपि मुच्यते
sahasraṃ sādhikaṃ kiṃcittrikamaitajjapanyamī | māsaṃ bahiḥ pratidinaṃ mahāghādapi mucyate
یہ تثلیث کچھ زیادہ ایک ہزار بار جپنے کے لائق ہے۔ اگر کوئی ایک ماہ تک روزانہ باہر بیٹھ کر اسے کرے تو وہ بڑے گناہ سے بھی چھوٹ جاتا ہے۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically Skanda instructing Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A practitioner stands or sits in an open courtyard outside the home, counting japa with a mālā; a calendar-like moon cycle subtly indicates ‘one month’; dark smoke-like forms of ‘sin’ dissipate into the air.
FAQs
Steady daily mantra-japa, done with discipline, is praised as a powerful purifier capable of removing even grave demerit.
The instruction belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī tradition; the verse itself highlights japa rather than a named tirtha.
Repeat the stated ‘triad’ slightly more than 1,000 times daily for one month, performed outside (bahih).