Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 6
तदा स्वरूपं पृथ्व्यादि पूजयेत्पापकृन्नरः । तथा स मुच्यते पापात्तत्कृताद्धि न संशयः
tadā svarūpaṃ pṛthvyādi pūjayetpāpakṛnnaraḥ | tathā sa mucyate pāpāttatkṛtāddhi na saṃśayaḥ
تب گناہگار انسان زمین وغیرہ سے آغاز ہونے والی تَتّواؤں کی حقیقی صورتوں کی پوجا کرے؛ یوں وہ اپنے کیے ہوئے گناہوں سے چھوٹ جاتا ہے—اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔
Bhartṛyajña (contextual continuation)
Scene: The performer, after bathing and preparing the pavilion, worships the elemental principles—Earth onward—represented as deities or symbolic maṇḍala forms; the rite culminates in a sense of release from sin.
FAQs
Right worship aligned with reality (tattvas) is presented as a means of release from accumulated wrongdoing.
The tīrtha is not specified in this verse; it speaks generally of expiatory worship within a tīrtha-māhātmya setting.
Tattva-pūjā: worship of principles starting with Earth (pṛthvī) and others as part of expiation.