Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 81
रुल्लं प्राप्य पुनर्देवी समुद्भूता मनोरमा । रुल्लं नाम पुरं यत्र सृष्टं देवेन शंभुना
rullaṃ prāpya punardevī samudbhūtā manoramā | rullaṃ nāma puraṃ yatra sṛṣṭaṃ devena śaṃbhunā
റുള്ളയെ വീണ്ടും പ്രാപിച്ച് ആ മനോഹര ദേവി അവിടെ പ്രാദുർഭവിച്ചു. ശംഭു ദേവൻ ‘റുള്ള’ എന്ന നഗരത്തെ സൃഷ്ടിച്ച സ്ഥലം അതാണ്.
Sūta (deduced from Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa māhātmya narration style)
Tirtha: Rullā
Type: kshetra
Scene: The Devī emerges radiant at Rullā, with Śambhu’s creative act implied in the background—either Śiva blessing the ground-plan of a city or raising it into being; the town’s gates/streets appear as sacred architecture.
FAQs
Holy places are sanctified through divine manifestation and divine founding, making geography itself a vehicle of dharma.
Rulla—presented as a sacred city within the Prabhāsakṣetra narrative.
No explicit rite is stated; the verse establishes the sanctity and divine origin of the place.