Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि उत्तरे देवमुत्तमम् । यस्तमाराधयेद्देवं महापातकनाशनम्
īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi uttare devamuttamam | yastamārādhayeddevaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam
ഈശ്വരൻ അരുളിച്ചെയ്തു—ഹേ മഹാദേവി! തുടർന്ന് ഉത്തരദിക്കിലെ പരമദേവനെ സമീപിക്കണം. മഹാപാതകനാശകനായ ആ ദേവനെ ആരാധിക്കുന്നവന്റെ ഗുരുപാപങ്ങൾ നശിക്കുന്നു।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Unnamed ‘uttara’ devatā-sthāna within Prabhāsa-kṣetra (next station)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Īśvara instructs Devī, pointing northward on a sacred map of Prabhāsa; a distant shrine glows, indicating the ‘supreme deity’ who destroys great sins.
FAQs
Pilgrimage and sincere worship of Śiva at the praised shrine are presented as a dharmic means to cleanse even grave sins.
The northern shrine of the supreme Lord in Prabhāsa Kṣetra—understood in this chapter as Uttareśvara.
Going (yātrā) to the northern sacred spot and performing ārādhana (devotional worship) of the deity.