Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
पुलस्त्य उवाच । देवखातं ततो गच्छेत्सुपुण्यं तीर्थमुत्तमम् । यत्ख्यातिर्विबुधैः सर्वैः स्वयमेव व्यधीयत
pulastya uvāca | devakhātaṃ tato gacchetsupuṇyaṃ tīrthamuttamam | yatkhyātirvibudhaiḥ sarvaiḥ svayameva vyadhīyata
പുലസ്ത്യൻ പറഞ്ഞു—അതിനുശേഷം അത്യുത്തമവും മഹാപുണ്യദായകവുമായ ദേവഖാത എന്ന തീർത്ഥത്തിലേക്ക് പോകണം; അതിന്റെ ഖ്യാതി സർവ്വ ദേവന്മാരിലും സ്വയം തന്നെ സ്ഥാപിതമാണ്।
Pulastya
Tirtha: Devakhāta
Type: kund
Listener: King (addressed in subsequent verses as ‘rājan’)
Scene: Pulastya instructs the king to proceed to Devakhāta; the landscape shows a sacred cut/cleft or stepped waterbody, with subtle divine presence suggesting ‘deva-made’.
FAQs
Some sacred sites are portrayed as inherently luminous—recognized even by the gods—so pilgrimage there is especially fruitful.
Devakhāta tīrtha.
The prescription is pilgrimage: “one should go” (gacchet) to Devakhāta.