Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7
सूर्य उवाच । एतत्सर्वं मुनिश्रेष्ठ त्वयोक्तं संभविष्यति । तीर्थानां कोटिरन्या च गंगादीनां महामुने
sūrya uvāca | etatsarvaṃ muniśreṣṭha tvayoktaṃ saṃbhaviṣyati | tīrthānāṃ koṭiranyā ca gaṃgādīnāṃ mahāmune
സൂര്യൻ അരുളിച്ചെയ്തു—ഹേ മുനിശ്രേഷ്ഠാ! നീ പറഞ്ഞതെല്ലാം നിശ്ചയമായും സംഭവിക്കും. ഹേ മഹാമുനേ! ഗംഗാദി തീർത്ഥങ്ങളോടുകൂടി മറ്റൊരു കോടി തീർത്ഥങ്ങളും ഇവിടെ പ്രത്യക്ഷമാകും.
Sūrya (Āditya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (as multi-tīrtha field)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Muni-śreṣṭha (a great sage; contextually the interlocutor of Sūrya in this māhātmya)
Scene: Sūrya, radiant and regal, speaks to a great sage, proclaiming that countless tīrthas—beginning with Gaṅgā—will be present in Prabhāsa; in the background, symbolic river-goddesses and tīrtha-icons appear as subtle presences.
FAQs
Divine assurance sanctifies the kṣetra, making it a concentrated field of tīrtha-merit for pilgrims.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, portrayed as containing or equaling innumerable tīrthas including Gaṅgā-like sanctity.
No explicit rite; the verse asserts the tīrtha-status and resulting merit of the place.