Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 17
एतस्मिन्नन्तरे देवि सौरं तेजः प्रसर्प्पितम् । तेन पावित्र्यमानीतं क्षेत्रं द्वादशयोजनम्
etasminnantare devi sauraṃ tejaḥ prasarppitam | tena pāvitryamānītaṃ kṣetraṃ dvādaśayojanam
اسی درمیان، اے دیوی، سورج کا نورانی تَیج پھیل گیا۔ اسی جلال سے بارہ یوجن کے پھیلاؤ والا یہ کْشَیتر پاکیزگی اور طہارت سے معمور ہو گیا۔
Śiva (deduced: addressing Devī in a māhātmya narrative)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī/Pārvatī
Scene: A vast coastal sacred field illuminated by a spreading solar aura; the radiance forms a luminous dome/mandala over Prabhāsa, indicating a twelve-yojana sanctified expanse.
FAQs
Divine presence—here expressed as the Sun’s radiance—consecrates a landscape and turns it into a field of merit (puṇya).
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, praised as a vast sanctified region measured as twelve yojanas.
No direct ritual is prescribed here; the verse establishes the sanctity and extent of the kṣetra as the basis for later rites and merits.