Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि कुम्भीश्वरमनुत्तमम् । शरभस्थानतः पूर्वे नातिदूरे व्यवस्थितम् । तं दृष्ट्वा मानवो देवि मुच्यते सर्वपातकैः
īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi kumbhīśvaramanuttamam | śarabhasthānataḥ pūrve nātidūre vyavasthitam | taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānavo devi mucyate sarvapātakaiḥ
Īśvara sprach: „Dann, o große Göttin, soll man zum unvergleichlichen Kumbhīśvara gehen, der nicht fern östlich von Śarabha-sthāna gelegen ist. Wer ihn erblickt, o Göttin, wird von allen Sünden befreit.“
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Kumbhīśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva (Īśvara) instructs Mahādevī on a coastal Prabhāsa pilgrimage: a small shrine of Kumbhīśvara lies east of a marked Śarabha-sthāna; a devotee approaches and attains purification through darśana.
FAQs
Even simple darśana of a Śiva-sthāna, approached as pilgrimage, is taught as a purifier that burns accumulated pāpa.
Kumbhīśvara, described as lying east of Śarabha-sthāna within Prabhāsakṣetra.
A pilgrimage instruction centered on darśana: “go to Kumbhīśvara” and “seeing it” yields purification.