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
ထိုနေရာမှ အရှေ့ဘက်သို့၊ ဒေဝတို့၏ မိခင်မဟာဒေဝီ၊ ယောဇနတစ်ခုအကွာ၌ သန့်ရှင်းသော အရပ်တစ်ခုရှိ၍ “ထရိတကူပ” (Tritakūpa) ဟု ကျော်ကြားကာ အပြစ်အားလုံးကို ဖျက်ဆီးတတ်၏။ ဒေဝီ၊ တီရ္ထအားလုံး၏ သန့်ရှင်းသတ္တိသည် ထိုနေရာတည်းတွင် စုပေါင်းတည်ရှိသည်ဟု ဆိုကြ၏။
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.