Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 75
तेषां पापं च यत्किंचिज्ज्ञानतोऽज्ञानतः कृतम् । तद्यास्यति क्षयं सर्वमाजन्ममरणांतिकम्
teṣāṃ pāpaṃ ca yatkiṃcijjñānato'jñānataḥ kṛtam | tadyāsyati kṣayaṃ sarvamājanmamaraṇāṃtikam
ان کا جو بھی گناہ—جان بوجھ کر یا نادانستہ—کیا گیا ہو، وہ سب مٹ جائے گا؛ جو کچھ پیدائش سے لے کر موت کے انجام تک جمع ہوا ہو، وہ بھی بالکل فنا ہو جائے گا۔
Brahmā
Listener: Agni
Scene: As ghee is offered, dark smoke-like forms symbolizing sins dissolve into the flame; the worshipper’s aura becomes clear and luminous, suggesting purification from birth-to-death accumulations.
FAQs
Sincere sacred offering acts as purification, dissolving even long-held moral impurities accumulated across one’s life.
The promise is given within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya setting; this verse itself does not name the tirtha.
The implied practice is vasordhārā-pradāna (continuous oblation), presented as a powerful purifier (prāyaścitta-like fruit).