Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 69
श्रीशैलो मोक्षदः सर्वः केदारोपि ततोऽधिकः । श्रीशैलाच्चापि केदारात्प्रयागं मोक्षदं परम्
śrīśailo mokṣadaḥ sarvaḥ kedāropi tato'dhikaḥ | śrīśailāccāpi kedārātprayāgaṃ mokṣadaṃ param
श्रीशैल सर्वथा मोक्ष देणारा आहे; त्याहूनही अधिक केदार आहे. आणि श्रीशैल व केदार यांपेक्षाही श्रेष्ठ प्रयाग—परम मोक्षद तीर्थ आहे.
Skanda
Tirtha: Śrīśaila; Kedāra; Prayāga
Type: sangam
Listener: Interlocutor within the chapter (contextual)
Scene: Three sacred landscapes in a comparative tableau: Śrīśaila’s forested hill-temple, Kedāra’s snow-clad Himalayan shrine, and Prayāga’s confluence with crowds bathing at sunrise.
FAQs
Sacred places are praised with a graded greatness; the Purāṇic tradition highlights certain kṣetras as exceptionally potent for mokṣa.
Śrīśaila, Kedāra, and especially Prayāga (Prayāgraj) as a supreme mokṣa-tīrtha.
No explicit ritual; the verse is evaluative, praising the mokṣa-bestowing power of these tīrthas.