Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 71
निर्मर्लांगस्ततो देवि दिनानि दश संस्थितः । ततस्तां चैव स स्नात्वा प्रतिलोमां क्रमाद्ययौ । प्लक्षावहरणं यावत्समुद्राच्च हिमाह्वयम्
nirmarlāṃgastato devi dināni daśa saṃsthitaḥ | tatastāṃ caiva sa snātvā pratilomāṃ kramādyayau | plakṣāvaharaṇaṃ yāvatsamudrācca himāhvayam
پھر، اے دیوی، وہ بے داغ ہوکر دس دن وہاں ٹھہرا۔ وہاں بھی غسل کرکے وہ اُلٹے ترتیب سے قدم بہ قدم روانہ ہوا—سمندر سے ہمالیہ تک، اور پلاکشاواہرن کہلانے والے خطّے تک۔
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-samudra-tīrtha (starting point) and the pan-Indian tīrtha-krama up to Himālaya/Plakṣāvaharaṇa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A purified pilgrim remains ten days at a coastal kṣetra, then begins a long reverse-sequence journey: from the roaring sea to distant snow mountains, stopping to bathe at successive sacred waters; the landscape transitions from shore to plains to Himalayan peaks.
FAQs
Purification is reinforced through disciplined stay, ritual bathing, and ordered pilgrimage (yātrā-krama).
The context is the Rāmeśvara-related tīrtha within Prabhāsakṣetra, connected with oceanic and Himalayan sacred geography.
A ten-day observance and bathing (snāna), followed by undertaking a pilgrimage in a prescribed sequence.