Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 57
भोभो राम न संतापस्त्वया कार्यः कथंचन । गच्छ प्राभासिकं क्षेत्रं यत्र देवी सरस्वती
bhobho rāma na saṃtāpastvayā kāryaḥ kathaṃcana | gaccha prābhāsikaṃ kṣetraṃ yatra devī sarasvatī
“โอ้ รามะ อย่าได้เศร้าโศกไม่ว่าประการใด จงไปยังเขตศักดิ์สิทธิ์ปราภาสิกะ ที่ซึ่งพระเทวีสรัสวตีสถิตอยู่”
Aśarīriṇī Vāk (bodiless voice)
Tirtha: Prābhāsika-kṣetra (Prabhāsa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rāma
Scene: A beam of celestial instruction points toward the western sea-coast; the pilgrim turns from grief to readiness, staff in hand; Sarasvatī is hinted as a luminous river-deity in the distance.
FAQs
Grief is transformed into a path: pilgrimage to a sanctified place becomes the divine remedy for moral anguish.
Prābhāsika kṣetra (Prabhāsakṣetra) and the Sarasvatī associated with it.
The prescription is tīrtha-yātrā—going to Prabhāsa where Sarasvatī is present (implying later bathing/ritual purification).