Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 71
निर्मर्लांगस्ततो देवि दिनानि दश संस्थितः । ततस्तां चैव स स्नात्वा प्रतिलोमां क्रमाद्ययौ । प्लक्षावहरणं यावत्समुद्राच्च हिमाह्वयम्
nirmarlāṃgastato devi dināni daśa saṃsthitaḥ | tatastāṃ caiva sa snātvā pratilomāṃ kramādyayau | plakṣāvaharaṇaṃ yāvatsamudrācca himāhvayam
Dann, o Göttin, frei von Makel, verweilte er dort zehn Tage. Nachdem er sich auch dort gebadet hatte, zog er Schritt für Schritt in umgekehrter Reihenfolge weiter — vom Ozean bis zum Himālaya, bis zur Gegend namens Plakṣāvaharaṇa.
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-samudra-tīrtha (starting point) and the pan-Indian tīrtha-krama up to Himālaya/Plakṣāvaharaṇa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A purified pilgrim remains ten days at a coastal kṣetra, then begins a long reverse-sequence journey: from the roaring sea to distant snow mountains, stopping to bathe at successive sacred waters; the landscape transitions from shore to plains to Himalayan peaks.
FAQs
Purification is reinforced through disciplined stay, ritual bathing, and ordered pilgrimage (yātrā-krama).
The context is the Rāmeśvara-related tīrtha within Prabhāsakṣetra, connected with oceanic and Himalayan sacred geography.
A ten-day observance and bathing (snāna), followed by undertaking a pilgrimage in a prescribed sequence.