Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 54
उत्तरे रविपुत्री तु दक्षिणे सागरं स्मृतम् । दक्षिणोत्तरमानोऽयं क्षेत्रस्यास्य प्रकीर्त्तितः
uttare raviputrī tu dakṣiṇe sāgaraṃ smṛtam | dakṣiṇottaramāno'yaṃ kṣetrasyāsya prakīrttitaḥ
Au nord se trouve Raviputrī, et au sud, dit-on, l’océan. Ainsi est proclamée l’étendue nord–sud de ce kṣetra sacré.
Śiva
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (bounded by Raviputrī and the ocean)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (addressed as ‘Mahādevi’)
Scene: A sacred map-like tableau: the Prabhāsa field shown between a northern river (Raviputrī) and the southern ocean, with pilgrims and sages indicating the kṣetra’s north–south span.
FAQs
Purāṇic tīrtha-māhātmya treats sacred space as mappable and knowable, guiding pilgrims with boundary markers.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, with its geographic limits described from Raviputrī in the north to the ocean in the south.
None; the verse provides pilgrimage-relevant boundary information.