Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9
पयोष्णी तपती पुण्या विदर्भा च पयस्विनी । गोदावरी महापुण्या भीमा कृष्णानदी तथा
payoṣṇī tapatī puṇyā vidarbhā ca payasvinī | godāvarī mahāpuṇyā bhīmā kṛṣṇānadī tathā
پیوُشنی اور مقدس تپتی؛ وِدربھا اور پیَسونی؛ نہایت پُنیہ والی گوداوری؛ اور بھیمہ نیز کرشنا ندی بھی—یہ سب جمع شدہ تیرتھوں میں شامل تھیں۔
Śrī Prahlāda (continuing narration)
Tirtha: Dvārakā (hosting Deccan river tīrthas)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Procession of Deccan river-devis arriving with regional flora (tamarind, sugarcane, black-soil fields), carrying kalashas; their waters flow as ribbons converging toward Dvārakā’s sea-facing city.
FAQs
The Purāṇa frames India’s rivers as carriers of merit, unified in their sanctifying purpose within pilgrimage tradition.
Dvārakā, as the implied dhāma whose greatness draws these rivers/tīrthas into attendance.
None explicitly; it is a sacred-river/tīrtha catalogue.