Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि देविकातटसंस्थितम् । जालेश्वरेति विख्यातं सुरासुरनमस्कृतम्
īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi devikātaṭasaṃsthitam | jāleśvareti vikhyātaṃ surāsuranamaskṛtam
ईश्वर म्हणाले—त्यानंतर, हे महादेवी, देविका तीरावर स्थित त्या तीर्थास जावे; जे ‘जालेश्वर’ म्हणून विख्यात असून देव-दानव दोघांनीही नमस्कृत आहे.
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Jāleśvara
Type: ghat
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Īśvara instructs Devī: a river Devikā flows beside a forested bank; a Śiva-liṅga shrine labeled Jāleśvara stands with celestial beings and asuras offering salutations.
FAQs
Pilgrimage is guided by divine instruction: approaching a famed liṅga-kṣetra is presented as a dharmic act honored across cosmic beings.
Jāleśvara on the bank of the Devikā river, within the Prabhāsakṣetra circuit.
The prescription is to go/undertake pilgrimage to the Jāleśvara tīrtha.