Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 44
अकथ्यं देवदेवेशि तव स्नेहात्प्रकाशितम् । एतत्प्राभासिकं क्षेत्रं प्रभया दीपितं मम
akathyaṃ devadeveśi tava snehātprakāśitam | etatprābhāsikaṃ kṣetraṃ prabhayā dīpitaṃ mama
हे देवदेवेशी, हे अकथ्य आहे; परंतु तुझ्या स्नेहामुळे ते प्रकट केले आहे. हे प्राभासिक क्षेत्र माझ्या प्रभेने प्रकाशित आहे.
Śiva (addressing Devī)
Tirtha: Prābhāsika-kṣetra (Prabhāsa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devadeveśī/Devī
Scene: Śiva tells Devī that the secret is ‘unspeakable’ yet revealed out of affection; the entire Prabhāsa-kṣetra glows with a pervasive radiance, like dawn-light over the sea and temples.
FAQs
Certain sacred truths are ‘rahasya’—revealed through divine intimacy; Prabhāsa shines because Śiva’s presence is its inner light.
Prābhāsika-kṣetra (Prabhāsa-kṣetra), praised as illumined by Śiva’s radiance.
No explicit rite; the verse underscores the sanctity and esoteric status of the kṣetra.