Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 32
कुर्वन्त्यन्ये लिंगपूजां प्रणामं च तथाऽपरे । प्रदक्षिणं प्रकुर्वन्ति साष्टांगं प्रणमन्ति च
kurvantyanye liṃgapūjāṃ praṇāmaṃ ca tathā'pare | pradakṣiṇaṃ prakurvanti sāṣṭāṃgaṃ praṇamanti ca
इतर काही लिंगपूजा करीत होते, तर काही भक्तिभावाने प्रणाम करीत होते। ते प्रदक्षिणा घालीत आणि साष्टांग दंडवत् होऊन नमस्कारही करीत होते।
Narrator (Purāṇic voice within Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Somnātha at Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Scene: Devotees and ascetics cluster around the liṅga: some offer flowers and water, others fold hands in praṇāma; lines of pilgrims move in pradakṣiṇā; a few lie in full sāṣṭāṅga prostration on the stone floor.
FAQs
Embodied devotion—worship, circumambulation, and prostration—anchors humility and surrender before Śiva in a sacred place.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where Liṅga-worship and devotional bodily rites are actively practiced.
Liṅga-pūjā, praṇāma (salutation), pradakṣiṇā (circumambulation), and sāṣṭāṅga-praṇāma (full prostration).