Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 45
प्रयागादीनि तीर्थानि गंगाद्याः सरितोऽमलाः । ऋषयो देवगंधर्वाः शुकाद्याः सनकादयः । वीक्ष्य वक्त्रं महाविष्णोः प्रणेमुश्च मुहुर्मुहुः
prayāgādīni tīrthāni gaṃgādyāḥ sarito'malāḥ | ṛṣayo devagaṃdharvāḥ śukādyāḥ sanakādayaḥ | vīkṣya vaktraṃ mahāviṣṇoḥ praṇemuśca muhurmuhuḥ
Prayāga und die anderen Tīrthas, die reinen Ströme beginnend mit der Gaṅgā, die Ṛṣis, die göttlichen Gandharvas, Śuka und die anderen sowie die Sanakas—als sie das Antlitz Mahāviṣṇus erblickten—verneigten sie sich immer wieder.
Prahlāda (narration)
Tirtha: Dvārakā (as the gathering-point of tīrthas)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A grand assembly: personified Prayāga and other tīrthas, Gaṅgā and other rivers as goddesses, sages like Śuka and the Sanakas, and gandharvas—כולם gazing upon Mahāviṣṇu’s radiant face and bowing repeatedly.
FAQs
All sanctities—tīrthas, rivers, sages, and celestial beings—converge in reverence before Mahāviṣṇu, teaching the supremacy of the divine presence.
Dvārakā is the narrative locus, while major tīrthas like Prayāga and rivers like Gaṅgā are invoked as participants in the sacred assembly.
Repeated praṇāma after beholding (vīkṣya) the deity’s face—darśana followed by reverential prostration.