Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि शशापानमिति स्मृतम् । तस्यैव दक्षिणे तीर्थं सर्वपापप्रणाशनम्
īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi śaśāpānamiti smṛtam | tasyaiva dakṣiṇe tīrthaṃ sarvapāpapraṇāśanam
ईश्वर म्हणाले—त्यानंतर, हे महादेवी, ‘शशापान’ म्हणून प्रसिद्ध असलेल्या स्थानी जावे. त्याच्याच दक्षिणेस सर्व पापांचा नाश करणारे एक तीर्थ आहे।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Śaśāpāna (and the southern tīrtha unnamed here)
Type: tirtha
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva instructs Devī, pointing southward on a sacred map-like landscape of Prabhāsa; pilgrims walk along a coastal path toward Śaśāpāna and the sin-destroying tīrtha beyond.
FAQs
Śiva frames pilgrimage as a deliberate dharmic journey to sin-destroying tīrthas.
Śaśāpāna and a nearby southern tīrtha within Prabhāsakṣetra.
A pilgrimage instruction: ‘go’ (gacchet) to the site; bathing is implied later but not stated in this verse.