Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
तत्कपालं करे लग्नं प्रभासक्षेत्रमागतः । ततो वर्षसहस्रं तु संस्थितः क्षेत्रमध्यतः
tatkapālaṃ kare lagnaṃ prabhāsakṣetramāgataḥ | tato varṣasahasraṃ tu saṃsthitaḥ kṣetramadhyataḥ
เมื่อกะโหลกนั้นติดแน่นอยู่ในพระหัตถ์ พระองค์เสด็จมาถึงกษेत्रศักดิ์สิทธิ์แห่งประภาสะ แล้วทรงประทับมั่นอยู่ ณ ใจกลางกษेत्रอันศักดิ์สิทธิ์นั้นตลอดหนึ่งพันปี
Īśvara (Śiva) (contextual attribution within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (kṣetra-madhya)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī/Pārvatī
Scene: Śiva arrives at Prabhāsa with the skull adhered to his palm, then sits immovable at the kṣetra’s center for a thousand years—an image of stillness amid a living pilgrimage landscape.
FAQs
A kṣetra becomes supremely sanctifying when the Lord abides there through sustained tapas and presence.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prabhāsakṣetra), the famed sacred region celebrated in the Skanda Purāṇa.
No explicit ritual is prescribed here; it highlights the Lord’s residence in the kṣetra as the basis of its greatness.