Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 98
एवमादीनि तीर्थानि यानि संति महीतले । तानि दृष्ट्वा तु देवेशि पुनर्जन्म न विन्दते
evamādīni tīrthāni yāni saṃti mahītale | tāni dṛṣṭvā tu deveśi punarjanma na vindate
یوں زمین پر جتنے بھی اور تیرتھ ہیں؛ اے دیویشِی، انہیں دیکھ لینے سے پھر دوبارہ جنم نہیں ملتا۔
Śiva (addressing Pārvatī as deveśi)
Tirtha: All tīrthas (with Prabhāsa as immediate context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (addressed as ‘deveśi’ in the surrounding passage)
Scene: A pilgrim completing a grand yātrā: a montage of many tīrthas fading into a single radiant path; the soul (jīva) symbolically crossing a river/ocean of saṃsāra toward a luminous gateway, with the words ‘punarjanma na vindate’ embodied as broken chains.
FAQs
Tīrtha-darśana is presented as a powerful aid toward liberation, reducing or ending the cycle of rebirth.
The verse speaks generally of tīrthas on earth, within a chapter centered on Prabhāsa’s greatness.
The implied practice is darśana/visitation of tīrthas; no details of snāna, dāna, or japa are specified here.