Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 114
पथो नदीश्च तीर्थानि चैत्यवृक्षान्महापथान् । स्थानानि तु पिशाचानां निवासायाददां प्रिये
patho nadīśca tīrthāni caityavṛkṣānmahāpathān | sthānāni tu piśācānāṃ nivāsāyādadāṃ priye
«Routes, rivières, tīrtha sacrés, arbres vénérés et grandes voies — ces lieux, je les assigne comme demeures aux Piśāca, ô bien-aimée.»
Unspecified first-person narrator addressing a beloved (priye) within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (associated tīrthas and caitya-vṛkṣas)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A riverbank tīrtha with a sacred tree (caitya-vṛkṣa) and a long highway; unseen piśācas implied by shadowy forms at the margins while pilgrims keep to lamp-lit, consecrated paths.
FAQs
Dharma orders the landscape: even disruptive beings are confined to defined zones, preserving the sanctity of human and ritual life.
Prabhāsakṣetra and its network of rivers, paths, sacred trees, and tīrthas.
No direct ritual; the verse emphasizes tīrtha geography and regulated residence around liminal public spaces.