Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 60
कालपाशेन ये बद्धास्तृष्णाजालेन मोहिताः । अधर्मनिरता ये च ये च तिष्ठंति पापिनः
kālapāśena ye baddhāstṛṣṇājālena mohitāḥ | adharmaniratā ye ca ye ca tiṣṭhaṃti pāpinaḥ
जो काल के पाश से बँधे हैं, तृष्णा के जाल से मोहित हैं, जो अधर्म में रत हैं और जो पाप में ही टिके रहते हैं—
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: A pilgrim-mass depicted as shadowed figures bound by a dark noose (kāla-pāśa) and entangled in a net (tṛṣṇā-jāla), moving toward the luminous shoreline/temple precinct of Prabhāsa where the light loosens the bonds.
FAQs
It portrays worldly bondage—time/death and craving—and moral downfall, setting up the claim that Prabhāsa’s sanctity can uplift even such beings.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, within whose māhātmya these conditions are mentioned to highlight the tīrtha’s saving power.
No explicit ritual appears in this verse segment.