Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
यत्र सिद्धः पुरा देवि जरानामा तु कौलिकः । विष्णुहंता भल्लतीर्थे सोऽस्मिन्स्थाने लयं गतः
yatra siddhaḥ purā devi jarānāmā tu kaulikaḥ | viṣṇuhaṃtā bhallatīrthe so'sminsthāne layaṃ gataḥ
ഹേ ദേവി, ഈ സ്ഥലത്തുതന്നെ പൂർവ്വം ‘ജരാ’ എന്ന പേരുള്ള കൗലികൻ (നെയ്ത്തുകാരൻ) സിദ്ധനായിരുന്നു; ഭല്ലതീർത്ഥത്തിൽ വിഷ്ണുഹന്തയായ അവൻ ഇവിടെ തന്നേ ലയം (പരമ ലീനത) പ്രാപിച്ചു।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Bhallatīrtha (Prabhāsa-kṣetra)
Type: tirtha
Listener: Devī
Scene: Jarā, described here as a siddha and a weaver by caste, stands at Bhallatīrtha in remorseful stillness; the sacred landscape absorbs him into laya, suggesting a dissolving aura into the kṣetra’s light.
FAQs
Even grave actions become framed within sacred geography: Prabhāsa and its tīrthas are presented as places where karmic narratives culminate and beings reach dissolution/merging.
Bhallatīrtha within Prabhāsa-kṣetra is explicitly named and linked to a decisive Purāṇic event.
No direct ritual is prescribed in this verse; it establishes the tīrtha’s narrative sanctity.