Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 16
कुले न जायते तस्य प्रेतः पार्थ न संशयः । प्रेता मोक्षं प्रगच्छन्ति तीर्थस्यास्य प्रभावतः
kule na jāyate tasya pretaḥ pārtha na saṃśayaḥ | pretā mokṣaṃ pragacchanti tīrthasyāsya prabhāvataḥ
اے پارتھ! بلا شبہ اس کے خاندان میں کوئی ‘پریت’ پیدا نہیں ہوتا؛ اس تیرتھ کے اثر سے پریت بھی موکش کو پہنچ جاتے ہیں۔
Unspecified (narrative voice within Māheśvarakhaṇḍa; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa tradition)
Tirtha: Mokṣa-tīrtha (Mokṣanātha-kūpa)
Type: kund
Listener: Pārtha
Scene: A teacher-figure addresses ‘Pārtha’ with certainty; behind them, the sacred well and a subtle vision of ancestors becoming peaceful and luminous, ascending from unrest to release.
FAQs
Tīrtha-prabhāva can transform karmic outcomes for a family, ensuring peace for ancestors and preventing the preta-condition.
The same Mokṣanātha-associated tīrtha/well whose power is said to grant preta-mukti.
Implicit continuation of the prior rite (snāna and offerings), whose result is described as liberation for the departed.