Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 100
एतत्स्मृतं प्रियतमं मम देवि नित्यं क्षेत्रं पवित्रमृषिसिद्धगणाभिरम्यम् । अस्मिन्मृताः सकलजीवमृतोऽपि देवि स्वर्गात्परं समुपयांति न संशयोऽत्र
etatsmṛtaṃ priyatamaṃ mama devi nityaṃ kṣetraṃ pavitramṛṣisiddhagaṇābhiramyam | asminmṛtāḥ sakalajīvamṛto'pi devi svargātparaṃ samupayāṃti na saṃśayo'tra
اے دیوی! یہ کِشیتر—جس کا سمرن کیا جائے—میرا نہایت محبوب، نِتیہ، پاک دھام ہے، جو رِشیوں اور سِدھوں کے گنوں سے رَمَنِیَ ہے۔ اے دیوی! جو یہاں مرتے ہیں—اگرچہ موت سب جیووں کو آتی ہے—وہ سوَرگ سے پرے مقام پاتے ہیں؛ اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔
Śiva (addressing Devī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī/Pārvatī
Scene: A panoramic vision of Prabhāsa as a luminous sacred region: pure air, sages and siddhas moving in the sky, the Someśvara shrine shining; a departing soul at Prabhāsa is gently lifted beyond the layered heavens into a tranquil, formless radiance.
FAQs
The kṣetra is portrayed as a liberating sacred geography: remembrance and final departure there lead beyond ordinary heavenly merit.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra, celebrated as Śiva’s most beloved eternal holy region.
Not a detailed rite, but two practices are implied: smaraṇa (remembering the kṣetra) and the exceptional merit associated with dying in the kṣetra.