Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 82
तस्मात्सर्वप्रयत्नेन पापं तत्र न कारयेत् । अन्यत्राऽवर्तितं पापं क्षेत्रे चास्मिन्विनश्यति
tasmātsarvaprayatnena pāpaṃ tatra na kārayet | anyatrā'vartitaṃ pāpaṃ kṣetre cāsminvinaśyati
সেয়ে সকলো প্ৰচেষ্টাৰে তাত পাপ নকৰিব। কিন্তু অন্য ঠাইত কৰা পাপো এই পবিত্ৰ ক্ষেত্ৰ (প্ৰভাস)ত বিনাশ হয়।
Śiva (addressing Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Pilgrims enter Prabhāsa with folded hands; a visible boundary of sanctity is shown—outside, dark karmic smoke; inside, light dissolves it; a cautionary gesture warns against wrongdoing within the kṣetra.
FAQs
Prabhāsa purifies past wrongdoing, yet one must still avoid fresh sin within a holy place.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra (the sacred field of Prabhāsa).
No specific rite is named; the instruction is ethical discipline—do not commit pāpa at the tīrtha.