Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 54
चक्रं प्रक्षालितं पूर्वं कृष्णेन स्वयमेव हि । तेनैव चक्रतीर्थं हि ख्यातं लोकत्रये द्विजाः
cakraṃ prakṣālitaṃ pūrvaṃ kṛṣṇena svayameva hi | tenaiva cakratīrthaṃ hi khyātaṃ lokatraye dvijāḥ
পূর্বে স্বয়ং শ্রীকৃষ্ণ সেখানে তাঁর চক্র প্রক্ষালিত করেছিলেন; তাই, হে দ্বিজগণ, তা ত্রিলোকে ‘চক্রতীর্থ’ নামে প্রসিদ্ধ।
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Cakratīrtha
Type: ghat
Listener: dvijāḥ (twice-born listeners addressed)
Scene: Kṛṣṇa stands by the sea/river-mouth washing the radiant Sudarśana-cakra; brāhmaṇas look on as the place becomes known as Cakratīrtha across the three worlds.
FAQs
A place becomes a universal tīrtha when sanctified by the direct presence and act of Bhagavān.
Cakratīrtha in the Dvārakā sacred geography.
No new rite is prescribed here; the verse provides the tīrtha’s sacred origin (māhātmya).