Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 89
पृथिव्यां यानि तीर्थानि पापघ्नानि शिवानि च । तानि देवेश कार्त्स्न्येन यथावद्वक्तुमर्हसि
pṛthivyāṃ yāni tīrthāni pāpaghnāni śivāni ca | tāni deveśa kārtsnyena yathāvadvaktumarhasi
Tous les tīrtha sur la terre—ceux qui détruisent le péché et ceux qui sont de bon augure—ô Seigneur des dieux, il te sied de me les décrire justement et dans leur totalité.
Devī (Pārvatī)
Listener: Īśvara (Śiva)
Scene: Devī respectfully petitions Īśvara to narrate the complete catalogue of earth’s sin-destroying and auspicious tīrthas; a didactic, court-like divine dialogue setting.
FAQs
Tīrthas are upheld as instruments of purification and auspiciousness, worthy of systematic remembrance and teaching.
The verse speaks generally of all earthly tīrthas; specific sites begin to be named in the following verses.
None directly, but the focus implies pilgrimage acts traditionally linked with tīrthas (darśana, snāna, śravaṇa).