य एष सागरो देवि योजनायतविस्तरः । आयतोऽशीतिसाहस्रं योजनानां प्रकीर्तितः
ya eṣa sāgaro devi yojanāyatavistaraḥ | āyato'śītisāhasraṃ yojanānāṃ prakīrtitaḥ
हे देवि, हा सागर योजनमापाने अत्यंत विस्तीर्ण आहे; त्याची लांबी ऐंशी सहस्र योजना अशी प्रकीर्तित आहे।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Sāgara at Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: A pilgrim-goddess dialogue set on the Prabhāsa shore: the ocean stretches immeasurably, waves like silver bands; sages point to the horizon while reciting yojana-measures.
The māhātmya frames sacred travel within a vast, meaningful cosmos where geography itself becomes a theater of dharma.
The coastal sacred landscape of Prabhāsa Kṣetra, in the context of Sāgarāditya and the ocean.
None directly; it provides cosmographic/geographic description supporting the tīrtha context.