Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 40
यक्ष उवाच । वरं प्रयच्छसि यदि विप्रवर्य मदीप्सितम् । ममांगमतिदुर्गंधि शापाच्च नृपतेरभूत् । सुगन्धयितुं ब्रह्मर्षे तत्प्रसीद मुनीश्वर
yakṣa uvāca | varaṃ prayacchasi yadi vipravarya madīpsitam | mamāṃgamatidurgaṃdhi śāpācca nṛpaterabhūt | sugandhayituṃ brahmarṣe tatprasīda munīśvara
یَکش نے کہا: اے برہمنوں میں افضل، اگر تم ور دیتے ہو تو میری مراد عطا کرو۔ بادشاہ کے شاپ کے سبب میرا بدن نہایت بدبودار ہو گیا ہے۔ اے برہمرشی، اے مونی اِشور، کرپا فرماؤ اور مجھے خوشبودار بنا دو۔
Yakṣa
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (tīrtha-jala referenced)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Agastya
Scene: A yakṣa, distressed and ashamed, stands before sage Agastya with folded hands, pleading for release from a foul-smelling curse; the setting evokes a sacred grove near a tīrtha in Ayodhyā.
FAQs
Even curse-born afflictions can be purified through humility, right approach to sages, and divine-tīrtha grace.
Within Ayodhyā Māhātmya, the episode points toward a tīrtha-based purification, elaborated in the following verses.
A boon-request for purification; the specific method (abhiṣeka with tīrtha-water) appears next.