Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7
सूर्य उवाच । एतत्सर्वं मुनिश्रेष्ठ त्वयोक्तं संभविष्यति । तीर्थानां कोटिरन्या च गंगादीनां महामुने
sūrya uvāca | etatsarvaṃ muniśreṣṭha tvayoktaṃ saṃbhaviṣyati | tīrthānāṃ koṭiranyā ca gaṃgādīnāṃ mahāmune
سورج نے کہا: اے بہترین رِشی، جو کچھ تم نے فرمایا ہے وہ سب ضرور واقع ہوگا۔ اے مہامنی، گنگا وغیرہ سے آغاز کرنے والے تیرتھوں کی ایک اور کروڑ تعداد بھی یہاں وابستہ ہوگی۔
Sūrya (Āditya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (as multi-tīrtha field)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Muni-śreṣṭha (a great sage; contextually the interlocutor of Sūrya in this māhātmya)
Scene: Sūrya, radiant and regal, speaks to a great sage, proclaiming that countless tīrthas—beginning with Gaṅgā—will be present in Prabhāsa; in the background, symbolic river-goddesses and tīrtha-icons appear as subtle presences.
FAQs
Divine assurance sanctifies the kṣetra, making it a concentrated field of tīrtha-merit for pilgrims.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, portrayed as containing or equaling innumerable tīrthas including Gaṅgā-like sanctity.
No explicit rite; the verse asserts the tīrtha-status and resulting merit of the place.