Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 6
समुद्रं प्रार्थयामास स्थानं संवासहेतवे । एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु देवदेवो दिवाकरः
samudraṃ prārthayāmāsa sthānaṃ saṃvāsahetave | etasminneva kāle tu devadevo divākaraḥ
彼は住まうにふさわしい場所を求めて海に祈願した。まさにその時、神々の神たる太陽神が……
Narrator (Purāṇic discourse; likely Sūta speaking within Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (Samudra-tīra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Viṣṇu stands at the seashore with attendants, hands in prayer toward the Ocean; waves rise as if listening. Simultaneously, the Sun’s radiance subtly shifts, hinting at an impending eclipse event.
FAQs
Sacred places are portrayed as divinely sanctioned—nature itself (the Ocean) participates in dharma by granting holy abodes.
Prabhāsakṣetra, linked with the oceanic shoreline and the manifestation of tīrtha-space.
No explicit rite here; it introduces the conditions leading to an auspicious tīrtha and later snāna.