Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 57
अपि कीटपतंगा ये म्रियंते तत्र ये नराः । तेऽपि यांति परं स्थानं नात्र कार्या विचारणा
api kīṭapataṃgā ye mriyaṃte tatra ye narāḥ | te'pi yāṃti paraṃ sthānaṃ nātra kāryā vicāraṇā
Even insects and moths—and even those human beings who die there—go to the supreme abode. About this there is no need for deliberation.
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: A boundary of Prabhāsa glowing like a protective aura; tiny beings—moths, insects, and humans—are shown rising as subtle lights toward a radiant ‘parama-sthāna’, indicating universal uplift through kṣetra-prabhāva.
FAQs
The tīrtha’s grace is portrayed as radically inclusive: death at Prabhāsa is said to lead to the supreme state.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where even death is described as spiritually transformative.
No explicit ritual is stated; the verse emphasizes the tīrtha-phala (fruit of the place) associated with dying there.