Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि ह्युन्नतस्थानमुत्तमम् । तस्यैवोत्तरदिग्भाग ऋषितोयातटे शुभे
īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi hyunnatasthānamuttamam | tasyaivottaradigbhāga ṛṣitoyātaṭe śubhe
ईश्वर म्हणाले—त्यानंतर, हे महादेवी, उत्तम ‘उन्नतस्थान’ येथे जावे. ते त्याच क्षेत्राच्या उत्तर भागात, शुभ ‘ऋषितोय’ तीरावर स्थित आहे।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Unnata-sthāna
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva instructs Devī to proceed north to an elevated sacred place by the Ṛṣitoya bank; pilgrims ascend a gentle rise; a riverbank shrine and flags flutter in coastal wind.
FAQs
The Māhātmya frames pilgrimage as a guided movement through a sacred landscape where each direction holds a sanctifying station.
Unnata-sthāna, an ‘elevated’ sacred location on the bank of Ṛṣitoya within Prabhāsakṣetra.
A pilgrimage instruction: proceed to the Unnata-sthāna; no specific rite is stated in this verse.