Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
तस्मात्पूर्वेण देवेशि योजनैकेन निर्मलम् । त्रितकूपेति विख्यातं सर्वपातकनाशनम् । सर्वेषां देवि तीर्थानां यत्तत्रैव व्यवस्थितिः
tasmātpūrveṇa deveśi yojanaikena nirmalam | tritakūpeti vikhyātaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam | sarveṣāṃ devi tīrthānāṃ yattatraiva vyavasthitiḥ
तेथून पूर्वेस, हे देवेशी, एक योजन अंतरावर ‘त्रितकूप’ नावाने प्रसिद्ध असे परम निर्मळ स्थान आहे; ते सर्व पापांचा नाश करणारे आहे. हे देवी, तेथेच सर्व तीर्थांची पुण्यशक्ती एकत्र स्थिर आहे असे सांगितले जाते.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Tritakūpa
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A pristine sacred well (kūpa) in the coastal Prabhāsa landscape; pilgrims approach from the west, carrying water pots and flowers; subtle divine presence indicating ‘all tīrthas’ gathered invisibly.
FAQs
The Purāṇa elevates certain tīrthas as ‘concentrated sanctity,’ where the merit of many sacred places is believed to converge.
Tritakūpa, described as a pure, sin-destroying tīrtha located one yojana east from the prior site.
No explicit act is named in this verse; it provides pilgrimage direction and the tīrtha’s sin-destroying merit.