Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 41
अपि वै दांभिकाश्चैव ये वसंत्यल्पबुद्धयः । मूढा जीवनिका विप्रास्तेऽपि यांति मृता दिवम्
api vai dāṃbhikāścaiva ye vasaṃtyalpabuddhayaḥ | mūḍhā jīvanikā viprāste'pi yāṃti mṛtā divam
Even those who are hypocritical and of little understanding—deluded Brahmins who live merely for livelihood—those too, when they die, go to heaven.
Śiva
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied interlocutor within the māhātmya; nearby address to Deveśī suggests a divine feminine listener in the dialogue frame.
Scene: A compassionate, luminous kṣetra aura envelops flawed individuals—hypocritical or deluded—transforming their destiny; a subtle moral contrast is shown between outer pretense and inner grace descending from the sacred field.
FAQs
The tīrtha’s sanctity is so great that it can uplift even morally compromised or spiritually negligent people through its kṣetra-prabhāva (power of place).
Prabhāsa Kṣetra, whose spiritual potency is described as universally elevating.
No explicit rite; the verse emphasizes the extraordinary salvific efficacy associated with the kṣetra.
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