Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15
तानि प्रियाणि देवेशि ध्रुवं नारायणस्य वै । औदकं चैव यत्तत्त्वं तस्मिन्प्राभासिकं स्मृतम्
tāni priyāṇi deveśi dhruvaṃ nārāyaṇasya vai | audakaṃ caiva yattattvaṃ tasminprābhāsikaṃ smṛtam
ഹേ ദേവേശി! അവ എല്ലാം നിശ്ചയമായും നാരായണനു പ്രിയമാണ്. കൂടാതെ ഏതു ‘ഔദക’—ജലബന്ധിത തത്ത്വമുണ്ടോ, അതേ ഈ പ്രഭാസ പ്രദേശത്ത് ‘പ്രാഭാസിക’ സാരമായി സ്മരിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു.
Śiva (deduced from Śiva–Pārvatī dialogue cues in this passage)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (Prābhāsika audaka-tattva)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Deveśi, Yaśasvinī)
Scene: Skanda instructs Devī: a map-like vision of Prabhāsa with many water-sites glowing; Nārāyaṇa’s affection is shown as a radiance settling upon ponds, ghāṭas, and sea-edge tīrthas labeled ‘prābhāsika’.
FAQs
Prabhāsa is portrayed as a uniquely sacred locus where Nārāyaṇa’s beloved presence and a primordial ‘watery’ essence are especially manifest.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra (Prabhāsakṣetra), the famed sacred region on the western seacoast celebrated in the Skanda Purāṇa.
No explicit rite is prescribed in this verse; it establishes the theological sanctity of the place as the basis for later tīrtha-merit claims.