Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि देवं सिद्धेश्वरं परम् । तस्यैव पश्चिमे भागे सिद्धैः संस्थापितं पुरा
īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi devaṃ siddheśvaraṃ param | tasyaiva paścime bhāge siddhaiḥ saṃsthāpitaṃ purā
ഈശ്വരൻ അരുളിച്ചെയ്തു—അതിനുശേഷം, ഹേ മഹാദേവി, പരമദേവനായ സിദ്ധേശ്വരനിലേക്കു പോകണം. അതേ പുണ്യസ്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ പടിഞ്ഞാറുഭാഗത്ത് സിദ്ധന്മാർ പുരാതനകാലത്ത് ഒരു ലിംഗം സ്ഥാപിച്ചിരുന്നു।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Siddheśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva instructs Devī on the next stop of the pilgrimage: a coastal sacred precinct with a small shrine to Siddheśvara on the western side; faint presence of Siddhas as luminous ascetics in the background.
FAQs
Seek out the divinized geography of Prabhāsa: approaching Siddheśvara is presented as a direct encounter with the supreme Śiva.
Siddheśvara in Prabhāsa Kṣetra, with mention of a Siddha-established liṅga to the west of the sacred locus.
A pilgrimage injunction: “one should go” (gacchet) to Siddheśvara—implying darśana and worship at the liṅga.