Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
देव्युवाच । केनायं स्थापितो देव कस्मात्प्रोक्तो रतीश्वरः । दर्शनेनास्य किं श्रेयः सर्वं विस्तरतो वद
devyuvāca | kenāyaṃ sthāpito deva kasmātprokto ratīśvaraḥ | darśanenāsya kiṃ śreyaḥ sarvaṃ vistarato vada
ದೇವಿಯು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಹೇ ದೇವಾ! ಇದನ್ನು ಯಾರು ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಿದರು? ಏಕೆ ಇವನನ್ನು ‘ರತೀಶ್ವರ’ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ? ಇವನ ದರ್ಶನದಿಂದ ಯಾವ ಶ್ರೇಯಸ್ಸು ದೊರೆಯುತ್ತದೆ? ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ವಿವರವಾಗಿ ಹೇಳು।
Devī (Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Ratīśvara (Prabhāsa-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Īśvara (Śiva)
Scene: Devī, seated in attentive reverence, questions Īśvara about a newly introduced liṅga called Ratīśvara—its founder, its name, and the fruits of seeing it; the setting hints at a coastal sacred landscape of Prabhāsa.
FAQs
Sacred geography is best understood through inquiry: the Purāṇa models asking about origin, name, and spiritual fruit before undertaking worship.
Ratīśvara in Prabhāsa Kṣetra, introduced as a significant Śiva-sthāna.
No explicit prescription; it is a prompt that leads into the shrine’s foundation narrative and its fruits.