Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 1
देव्युवाच । देवदेव जगन्नाथ संसारार्णवतारक । सविस्तरं तु मे ब्रूहि ऋषितोयामहोदयम्
devyuvāca | devadeva jagannātha saṃsārārṇavatāraka | savistaraṃ tu me brūhi ṛṣitoyāmahodayam
देव्युवाच—हे देवदेव जगन्नाथ, हे संसारार्णवतारक! ऋषितोयाया उदयमहात्म्यं मे सविस्तरं ब्रूहि।
Devī
Tirtha: Ṛṣitoyā
Type: kund
Listener: Īśvara (Śiva)
Scene: Devī, seated in reverent posture, addresses Īśvara with folded hands, requesting a detailed account of Ṛṣitoyā’s manifestation and greatness; a coastal sacred landscape hinted in the background.
FAQs
Reverent inquiry into a tīrtha’s greatness is presented as a doorway to understanding purification and liberation-oriented dharma.
Ṛṣitoyā (a sacred river associated with Prabhāsa Kṣetra) is the focus of the requested māhātmya.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; it initiates the inquiry that frames the forthcoming tīrtha-glorification.
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