Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 22
अघमर्षं जपंश्चैव यः करिष्यति तोयगः । मम मूर्तेः पुरः स्थित्वा पैलमन्त्रपुरःसरम्
aghamarṣaṃ japaṃścaiva yaḥ kariṣyati toyagaḥ | mama mūrteḥ puraḥ sthitvā pailamantrapuraḥsaram
جو کوئی پانی کا ارپن کرے اور میری مورتی کے سامنے کھڑے ہو کر، پَیل منتر سے آغاز کرتے ہوئے، اَگھمرشن کا جپ بھی کرے—
Brahmā (continuing from v.21, first-person ‘mama mūrteḥ’)
Tirtha: Aghamarṣaṇa-japa with udaka offering before Brahmā’s mūrti (rite within Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra narrative)
Type: ghat
Listener: Dvijottamāḥ / pilgrims (generalized instruction)
Scene: A devotee stands before a deity image (Brahmā implied), holding a water vessel, pouring a libation while reciting Aghamarṣaṇa; priests nearby guide with palm-leaf/recitation cues.
FAQs
Purification is achieved by uniting devotion (standing before the deity’s form) with Vedic recitation and water-offerings performed in a tīrtha setting.
The act is situated before Brahmā’s mūrti within the chapter’s tīrtha/kṣetra context; the specific site-name is not repeated in this verse.
Perform toya-arpaṇa (water offering) and japa of the Aghamarṣaṇa, beginning with/preceded by the Paila-mantra, while standing before the deity’s image.