Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
तस्मात्पूर्वेण देवेशि योजनैकेन निर्मलम् । त्रितकूपेति विख्यातं सर्वपातकनाशनम् । सर्वेषां देवि तीर्थानां यत्तत्रैव व्यवस्थितिः
tasmātpūrveṇa deveśi yojanaikena nirmalam | tritakūpeti vikhyātaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam | sarveṣāṃ devi tīrthānāṃ yattatraiva vyavasthitiḥ
ಅಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಪೂರ್ವದಿಕ್ಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ, ಹೇ ದೇವೇಶಿ, ಒಂದು ಯೋಜನ ದೂರದಲ್ಲಿ ‘ತ್ರಿತಕೂಪ’ ಎಂದು ಖ್ಯಾತಿಯಾದ ಪರಮ ನಿರ್ಮಲ ಸ್ಥಳವಿದೆ; ಅದು ಸರ್ವ ಪಾಪಗಳನ್ನು ನಾಶಮಾಡುವುದು. ಹೇ ದೇವಿ, ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ತೀರ್ಥಗಳ ಪುಣ್ಯಶಕ್ತಿ ಒಂದಾಗಿ ಸ್ಥಿತವಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Tritakūpa
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A pristine sacred well (kūpa) in the coastal Prabhāsa landscape; pilgrims approach from the west, carrying water pots and flowers; subtle divine presence indicating ‘all tīrthas’ gathered invisibly.
FAQs
The Purāṇa elevates certain tīrthas as ‘concentrated sanctity,’ where the merit of many sacred places is believed to converge.
Tritakūpa, described as a pure, sin-destroying tīrtha located one yojana east from the prior site.
No explicit act is named in this verse; it provides pilgrimage direction and the tīrtha’s sin-destroying merit.