Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 63
क्षेत्रपीठमिति प्रोक्तमतो गर्भगृहं शृणु । समुद्रात्कौरवी यावद्दक्षिणोत्तरमानतः । पूर्वपश्चिमतो ज्ञेयं गोमुखादाऽश्वमेधकम्
kṣetrapīṭhamiti proktamato garbhagṛhaṃ śṛṇu | samudrātkauravī yāvaddakṣiṇottaramānataḥ | pūrvapaścimato jñeyaṃ gomukhādā'śvamedhakam
“This has been declared the ‘kṣetra-pīṭha’; now hear of the garbhagṛha, the inner sanctum. From the ocean up to Kauravī is its north–south measure; and its east–west span is to be known as extending from Gomukha to Aśvamedhaka.”
Śiva
Tirtha: Prabhāsa kṣetra-pīṭha / garbhagṛha zone
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī/Pārvatī
Scene: A sacred landscape drawn like a temple plan: an outer pīṭha labeled ‘kṣetra-pīṭha’, and within it a smaller rectangle/circle labeled ‘garbhagṛha’, with four directional markers—ocean, Kauravī, Gomukha, Aśvamedhaka—forming axes.
FAQs
The ‘garbhagṛha’ is presented as the concentrated heart of the kṣetra, implying that sacred space has an inner center where grace is most intensely accessible.
The inner core of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, defined by landmarks: ocean–Kauravī (north–south) and Gomukha–Aśvamedhaka (east–west).
No explicit ritual is prescribed; the verse provides pilgrimage cartography for identifying the kṣetra’s core.