Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7
प्रभासं चिरकालेन क्षेत्रं चैव गमिष्यति । वापीकूपतडागादि मुक्त्वा सागरगामिनीम्
prabhāsaṃ cirakālena kṣetraṃ caiva gamiṣyati | vāpīkūpataḍāgādi muktvā sāgaragāminīm
กาลล่วงนานไป นางจักไปถึงเขตศักดิ์สิทธิ์ปรภาสะด้วย ละทิ้งบ่อ บ่อน้ำขั้นบันได สระและสิ่งทั้งหลาย แล้วกลายเป็นสายน้ำที่ไหลสู่มหาสมุทร
Īśvara (Śiva) (narrating)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa Kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: (Implied audience of the māhātmya; typically sages/Janamejaya-type frame varies by recension)
Scene: A sacred river-personified as a goddess leaves behind village wells, stepwells, and ponds, widening into a luminous current that turns westward and enters the sea at Prabhāsa, with Somnātha’s coastal silhouette in the distance.
FAQs
A tīrtha’s sanctity is framed through sacred geography: the river’s destined course ties inland holiness to the ocean-bound pilgrimage landscape.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra is explicitly named as the sacred destination of the river’s course.
No direct prescription; the verse describes the river’s movement, establishing the geographic basis for later tīrtha practices (snāna, dāna, etc.).