Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 55
कृते युगे पुष्कराणि त्रेतायां नैमिषं तथा । द्वापरे तु कुरुक्षेत्रं प्राभासिकं कलौयुगे
kṛte yuge puṣkarāṇi tretāyāṃ naimiṣaṃ tathā | dvāpare tu kurukṣetraṃ prābhāsikaṃ kalauyuge
कृतयुगात पुष्कर श्रेष्ठ, त्रेतायुगात नैमिष तसेच; द्वापरात कुरुक्षेत्र, आणि कलियुगात प्राभास तीर्थ सर्वोत्तम आहे.
Skanda (deduced from section context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (Kali-yuga pradhāna tīrtha)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A four-panel cosmic map of India’s sacred geography across yugas: Puṣkara in Kṛta, Naimiṣa in Tretā, Kurukṣetra in Dvāpara, and Prabhāsa in Kali—each panel showing its signature landscape and a radiant yuga emblem above.
FAQs
Different yugas highlight different supreme pilgrimage centers; for Kali Yuga, Prabhāsa is celebrated as especially efficacious.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra is explicitly praised as the key tīrtha for Kali Yuga.
An implicit prescription of pilgrimage priority: in Kali Yuga, undertake Prabhāsa-yātrā for heightened merit.