Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
प्रहस्तं प्रेषयामास किमिदं व्रज मेदिनीम् । अहताऽस्य गतिर्यस्मात्त्रैलोक्ये सचराचरे
prahastaṃ preṣayāmāsa kimidaṃ vraja medinīm | ahatā'sya gatiryasmāttrailokye sacarācare
فأرسلَ براهَسْتا قائلاً: «ما هذا؟ انزلْ إلى الأرض وتحقَّق». إذ لم تُعَقْ حركتُه قطّ في موضعٍ ما ضمن العوالم الثلاثة، بما فيها من الكائنات المتحركة والساكنة.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya)
Tirtha: Rāvaṇeśvara / Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Rāvaṇa, astonished and irritated, orders Prahasta to descend; Prahasta leaps or rides downward through clouds toward the glowing earth below; the halted Puṣpaka hangs overhead.
FAQs
Pride in unchecked power is humbled when one encounters a divinely protected sacred landscape.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra, implicitly shown as a realm where ordinary cosmic rules are suspended by Śiva’s presence.
None; it is a narrative instruction to investigate the cause of a miraculous stoppage.