Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 55
कृते युगे पुष्कराणि त्रेतायां नैमिषं तथा । द्वापरे तु कुरुक्षेत्रं प्राभासिकं कलौयुगे
kṛte yuge puṣkarāṇi tretāyāṃ naimiṣaṃ tathā | dvāpare tu kurukṣetraṃ prābhāsikaṃ kalauyuge
في عصر كِرتا كانت بوشكرا هي الأسمى؛ وفي تريتا كذلك نايميṣa؛ وفي دفابارا كوروكشيترا؛ أمّا في كالي يوغا فبرابهاسا هي الأوّل والأفضل.
Skanda (deduced from section context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (Kali-yuga pradhāna tīrtha)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A four-panel cosmic map of India’s sacred geography across yugas: Puṣkara in Kṛta, Naimiṣa in Tretā, Kurukṣetra in Dvāpara, and Prabhāsa in Kali—each panel showing its signature landscape and a radiant yuga emblem above.
FAQs
Different yugas highlight different supreme pilgrimage centers; for Kali Yuga, Prabhāsa is celebrated as especially efficacious.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra is explicitly praised as the key tīrtha for Kali Yuga.
An implicit prescription of pilgrimage priority: in Kali Yuga, undertake Prabhāsa-yātrā for heightened merit.