Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 13
तीर्थयात्राप्रसंगेन यदा प्रभासमागतः । भीमसेनो महाबाहुर्वायुपुत्रो ममांशजः
tīrthayātrāprasaṃgena yadā prabhāsamāgataḥ | bhīmaseno mahābāhurvāyuputro mamāṃśajaḥ
तीर्थयात्रेच्या निमित्ताने जेव्हा महाबाहु भीमसेन—वायुपुत्र व माझ्या अंशातून उत्पन्न—प्रभासास आला।
Īśvara (Śiva) (deduced from immediate next adhyāya opening and continuous māhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (arrival context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Bhīmasena, mighty-armed, arrives at the luminous coastal Prabhāsa on pilgrimage, accompanied by brothers; the kṣetra appears as a sacred shoreline with shrines and ghāṭas.
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Holy places become spiritually potent narrative gateways: the devotee’s arrival at a tīrtha initiates grace-bearing events.
Prabhāsa (Prabhāsa-kṣetra), the renowned coastal tīrtha celebrated in the Skanda Purāṇa.
No explicit rite is stated here; it sets the scene for later worship and tīrtha-related merit.