Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 67
प्रदक्षिणीकृता तेन सप्तद्वीपा वसुन्धरा । सप्तपातालसहिता तीर्थकोटिभिरावृता
pradakṣiṇīkṛtā tena saptadvīpā vasundharā | saptapātālasahitā tīrthakoṭibhirāvṛtā
അവൻ ചെയ്ത പ്രദക്ഷിണയാൽ ഏഴ് ദ്വീപങ്ങളുള്ള ഭൂമി, ഏഴ് പാതാളങ്ങളോടുകൂടി, കോടി തീർത്ഥങ്ങളാൽ ആവൃതമായതെല്ലാം—മുഴുവനായും പ്രദക്ഷിണം ചെയ്തതുപോലെ ആകുന്നു.
Skanda (deduced from Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya narrative style)
Tirtha: Brahmakuṇḍa (Prabhāsa)
Type: kund
Scene: As the devotee completes pradakṣiṇā, the scene expands into a visionary mandala: seven concentric island-continents, beneath them layered netherworlds; countless tīrthas appear as glowing points encircling the earth, all contained within the kuṇḍa’s circle.
FAQs
Devotion at a mahā-tīrtha can equal vast religious effort elsewhere; a single rite can symbolically encompass the whole sacred cosmos.
The kuṇḍa being circumambulated in Prabhāsakṣetra—contextually Brahmakuṇḍa.
Pradakṣiṇā (circumambulation) of the kuṇḍa, whose fruit is described as equivalent to circumambulating the entire sacred earth.