Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 23
यत्र गंगा गया काशी पुष्करं नैमिषं तथा । कुरुक्षेत्रं तथा रेवा महीसागरसंगमः
yatra gaṃgā gayā kāśī puṣkaraṃ naimiṣaṃ tathā | kurukṣetraṃ tathā revā mahīsāgarasaṃgamaḥ
जिथे गंगा, गया, काशी, पुष्कर आणि नैमिष आहेत; जिथे कुरुक्षेत्र आणि रेवा आहेत—तिथेच मही (पृथ्वी) व सागर यांचा संगमही आहे.
Tīrtharāja (Mahīsāgara-saṅgama personified)
Tirtha: Mahī–Sāgara-saṅgama (Earth–Ocean confluence) as tīrtha-samāhāra locus
Type: sangam
Listener: Personified tīrthas / assembly
Scene: A visionary map-like tableau: iconic markers of Gaṅgā, Gayā, Kāśī, Puṣkara, Naimiṣa, Kurukṣetra, and Revā converge symbolically at a vast shoreline where Earth meets Ocean, suggesting all tīrthas gathered in one place.
FAQs
A supremely sanctifying place is described as one that mysteriously contains the merit of many famed tīrthas within itself.
Mahīsāgara-saṅgama—the confluence of Mahī (Earth/river Mahī) with the ocean—is praised as embodying multiple celebrated pilgrimage sites.
No explicit rite is stated here; the verse functions as a mahātmya claim of concentrated tīrtha-merit.