Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
आदिप्रभासात्पुरतो धनुषां त्रितये स्थितम् । रुद्रेण ध्यानमास्थाय स्वं तेजस्तत्र योजितम्
ādiprabhāsātpurato dhanuṣāṃ tritaye sthitam | rudreṇa dhyānamāsthāya svaṃ tejastatra yojitam
आदि-प्रभासाच्या समोर तीन धनुष्य अंतरावर ते स्थित आहे; तेथेच रुद्रांनी ध्यान धारण करून आपले दिव्य तेज प्रतिष्ठित केले।
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Rudreśvara (near Ādi-Prabhāsa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Rudra sits in deep meditation near Ādi-Prabhāsa; from his body emanates a concentrated radiance that settles into the earth, marking the future Rudreśvara presence; the distance is symbolically shown by a short procession path.
FAQs
Holy places are portrayed as crystallizations of divine meditation and ‘tejas’, making geography itself a vessel of grace.
Rudreśvara near Ādi-Prabhāsa, defined with a traditional distance marker.
None directly; the verse gives a locating measure and a mythic origin (Rudra’s dhyāna).