Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 12
यम उवाच । मुच्यतामाशु तेनायं नानेयाश्चापरे जनाः । ये मृता मम तीर्थे वै सर्वपातकनाशने
yama uvāca | mucyatāmāśu tenāyaṃ nāneyāścāpare janāḥ | ye mṛtā mama tīrthe vai sarvapātakanāśane
یَم نے کہا: ‘اس تیرتھ کے اثر سے اسے فوراً رہا کر دیا جائے، اور جو لوگ میرے تیرتھ میں—جو سب گناہوں کو مٹانے والا ہے—مرے ہوں، انہیں سزا کے لیے ہرگز نہ لایا جائے۔’
Yama (Dharmarāja/Vaivasvata)
Tirtha: Yama-tīrtha on Arbudācala (sarva-pātaka-nāśana)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Yamadūtas
Scene: Dharmarāja issues a compassionate decree: the sinner is unbound; yamadūtas halt, lowering their weapons; a radiant tīrtha aura is symbolically shown, as if the mountain’s sanctity reaches the court of Yama.
FAQs
A supremely sanctified tīrtha can nullify even heavy sins; divine justice (Yama) itself honors the higher purifying law of sacred places.
Yama’s own tīrtha on Arbudācala, explicitly praised as sarvapātakanāśana (destroyer of all sins).
Implicit prescription: association with the tīrtha (and even dying there) grants purification; no detailed rite is stated in this verse.