Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 84
कालानलस्य रुद्रस्य कालराजेन चाग्निना । दग्धास्ते जन्तवः सर्वे प्रभासे ये मृताः शुभे
kālānalasya rudrasya kālarājena cāgninā | dagdhāste jantavaḥ sarve prabhāse ye mṛtāḥ śubhe
कालानल-रुद्राच्या ज्वाळेने आणि कालराज (यम) यांच्या अग्नीने—शुभ प्रभासात जे प्राणी मरण पावतात, त्यांचे सर्व बंधन दग्ध होते।
Śiva (addressing Devī/Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A metaphysical tableau: Prabhāsa as a radiant sacred ground where two purifying fires—Rudra’s blazing Kāla-fire and Yama’s judicial fire—burn away dark chains around departing beings, leaving a clear, luminous path upward.
FAQs
In Prabhāsa, death is transformed: the forces of time and death themselves become purifying fires that consume karmic bondage.
Prabhāsakṣetra, described as auspicious and liberative even at the moment of death.
No explicit ritual; the verse offers a theological explanation (purifying fire of Kāla/Rudra and Yama) for the promised kṣetra-mukti.