Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 12
स्नानं करोति तस्येष्टं मनसो जायते फलम् । चतुर्विंशतिमानेषु स्नातो भवति स द्विजाः
snānaṃ karoti tasyeṣṭaṃ manaso jāyate phalam | caturviṃśatimāneṣu snāto bhavati sa dvijāḥ
—اور اشنان کرے تو اس کے لیے دل کی نیت کے مطابق مطلوبہ پھل ظاہر ہوتا ہے۔ اے دِویجو، وہ چوبیسوں کے پورے مجموعے میں اشنان کرنے والا مانا جاتا ہے۔
Sūta
Tirtha: Kṣetra-traya snāna (counted as ‘caturviṃśati’ snāna)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijāḥ (brāhmaṇas/sages)
Scene: A pilgrim performs snāna with focused intention; above, a symbolic mandala of ‘24 tīrthas’ appears, indicating equivalence—one bath here equals bathing in all twenty-four.
FAQs
Outer rite and inner intention work together: snāna joined with sincere mental resolve yields the promised fruit and fulfills the sacred circuit’s merit.
The verse refers to the broader ‘twenty-four’ tīrtha framework being taught in this chapter, rather than a single named site.
Snāna (ritual bathing), with emphasis on iṣṭa-phala arising in accordance with the practitioner’s mental intention (saṅkalpa).