Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
यत्र सिद्धः पुरा देवि जरानामा तु कौलिकः । विष्णुहंता भल्लतीर्थे सोऽस्मिन्स्थाने लयं गतः
yatra siddhaḥ purā devi jarānāmā tu kaulikaḥ | viṣṇuhaṃtā bhallatīrthe so'sminsthāne layaṃ gataḥ
ಹೇ ದೇವಿ, ಇದೇ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರ್ವಕಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ‘ಜರಾ’ ಎಂಬ ಹೆಸರಿನ ಕೌಲಿಕ (ನೇಯ್ಗಾರ) ಸಿದ್ಧನಾಗಿದ್ದನು; ಭಲ್ಲತೀರ್ಥದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಷ್ಣುಹಂತನಾದ ಅವನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲೇ ಲಯ (ಪರಮ ಲೀನತೆ) ಹೊಂದಿದನು।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Bhallatīrtha (Prabhāsa-kṣetra)
Type: tirtha
Listener: Devī
Scene: Jarā, described here as a siddha and a weaver by caste, stands at Bhallatīrtha in remorseful stillness; the sacred landscape absorbs him into laya, suggesting a dissolving aura into the kṣetra’s light.
FAQs
Even grave actions become framed within sacred geography: Prabhāsa and its tīrthas are presented as places where karmic narratives culminate and beings reach dissolution/merging.
Bhallatīrtha within Prabhāsa-kṣetra is explicitly named and linked to a decisive Purāṇic event.
No direct ritual is prescribed in this verse; it establishes the tīrtha’s narrative sanctity.