Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 29
अगस्त्य उवाच । शृणु तीर्थानि गदतो मानसानि ममानघे । येषु सम्यङ्नरः स्नात्वा प्रयाति परमां गतिम्
agastya uvāca | śṛṇu tīrthāni gadato mānasāni mamānaghe | yeṣu samyaṅnaraḥ snātvā prayāti paramāṃ gatim
اگستیہ نے کہا: “اے بے عیب خاتون، سنو؛ میں تمہیں مانسی (باطنی) تِیرتھوں کا بیان کرتا ہوں—جن میں انسان درست طریقے سے اشنان کرے تو اعلیٰ ترین گتی، یعنی پرم مقام، پا لیتا ہے۔”
Agastya
Tirtha: Mānasa-tīrthas (Agastya’s forthcoming list)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sadharmiṇī (addressed as anaghā—blameless)
Scene: Agastya begins a formal enumeration: he raises a hand in teaching mudrā; a stream of luminous water descends not onto the body but into a heart-lotus, symbolizing ‘samyak-snān’ in the mind; the listener sits attentive with a calm face.
FAQs
Purification can be inward as well as outward; ‘bathing’ in subtle tīrthas symbolizes right inner practice culminating in the highest goal.
No single site is named yet; the verse introduces Agastya’s forthcoming list of mānasatīrthas.
Snāna is mentioned in a subtle sense—‘bathing rightly’ in mānasatīrthas—implying inner purification practices rather than merely physical immersion.