Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
कथं तुष्यसि मर्त्यानां क्षेत्रे तत्र विचेतसाम् । जप्तं दत्तं हुतं यष्टं तपस्तप्तं कृतं च यत् । प्रभासे तु महाक्षेत्रे कस्मात्तत्राक्षयं भवेत्
kathaṃ tuṣyasi martyānāṃ kṣetre tatra vicetasām | japtaṃ dattaṃ hutaṃ yaṣṭaṃ tapastaptaṃ kṛtaṃ ca yat | prabhāse tu mahākṣetre kasmāttatrākṣayaṃ bhavet
হে প্ৰভু, সেই ক্ষেত্ৰত চিত্ত বিচলিত মর্ত্যলোকৰ লোকসকলৰ ওপৰতো তুমি কেনেকৈ সন্তুষ্ট হওঁ? আৰু প্ৰভাসৰ মহাক্ষেত্ৰত কৰা জপ, দান, হোম-হুত, যজ্ঞ, তপস্যা আদি যি কিছু কৰা হয়, সেয়া কিয় অক্ষয় হয়?
Devī (Satī/Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaṅkara
Scene: Devī asks a profound question: why Śiva is pleased even with distracted mortals in Prabhāsa, and why all rites there become imperishable; symbolic imagery of offerings, japa beads, fire altar, and ascetic practice surrounding the kṣetra.
FAQs
Certain supreme kṣetras magnify merit; the verse asks for the theological basis of ‘akṣaya’ fruit at Prabhāsa.
Prabhāsa is called a mahākṣetra where spiritual acts yield imperishable results.
Japa, dāna, homa, yajña, and tapas are listed as acts whose fruit becomes akṣaya in Prabhāsa.