Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 122
अथातः संप्रवक्ष्यामि तीर्थानां स्पर्शने विधिम् । मन्त्रेण मंत्रितं तीर्थं भवेत्संनिहितं तथा
athātaḥ saṃpravakṣyāmi tīrthānāṃ sparśane vidhim | mantreṇa maṃtritaṃ tīrthaṃ bhavetsaṃnihitaṃ tathā
ഇപ്പോൾ ഞാൻ തീർത്ഥസ്പർശ (ആവാഹനം) ചെയ്യുന്ന വിധി പറയുന്നു. മന്ത്രംകൊണ്ട് അഭിമന്ത്രിതമായ തീർത്ഥം അവിടെ തന്നേ സാക്ഷാൽ സന്നിഹിതമാകുന്നു.
Śiva (in Prabhāsa-kṣetra māhātmya context, speaking to Devī/Umā)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra tīrthas (general vidhi for all tīrthas)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A pilgrim at Prabhāsa stands at a sacred water-edge, hands in añjali, invoking the tīrtha with mantra; the water is shown as subtly luminous, indicating ‘saṃnidhāna’.
FAQs
Ritual presence is established through mantra: sacred geography becomes experientially ‘present’ when properly invoked.
The tīrthas of Prabhāsa Kṣetra collectively, within the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya.
A rule for tīrtha-sparśa: consecrate/invoke the tīrtha with mantra so it becomes saṃnihita (present) for the rite.