Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 60
कालपाशेन ये बद्धास्तृष्णाजालेन मोहिताः । अधर्मनिरता ये च ये च तिष्ठंति पापिनः
kālapāśena ye baddhāstṛṣṇājālena mohitāḥ | adharmaniratā ye ca ye ca tiṣṭhaṃti pāpinaḥ
காலத்தின் பாசத்தால் கட்டுண்டு, ஆசையின் வலையால் மயங்கியோர்; அதர்மத்தில் ஈடுபட்டு, பாவத்தில் நிலைத்திருப்போர்—
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: A pilgrim-mass depicted as shadowed figures bound by a dark noose (kāla-pāśa) and entangled in a net (tṛṣṇā-jāla), moving toward the luminous shoreline/temple precinct of Prabhāsa where the light loosens the bonds.
FAQs
It portrays worldly bondage—time/death and craving—and moral downfall, setting up the claim that Prabhāsa’s sanctity can uplift even such beings.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, within whose māhātmya these conditions are mentioned to highlight the tīrtha’s saving power.
No explicit ritual appears in this verse segment.