Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
विज्ञेया इह लोकेऽस्मिन्भूतानां मूलनायकाः । अतिकृष्णा भवन्त्येते व्यंतरान्तरचारिणः
vijñeyā iha loke'sminbhūtānāṃ mūlanāyakāḥ | atikṛṣṇā bhavantyete vyaṃtarāntaracāriṇaḥ
اعلمْ أنّه في هذا العالم بعينه هؤلاء هم القادة الأوّلون للـ«بهوتا» (bhūta). أشكالهم شديدة السواد، ويتحرّكون في الفُسَح الباطنة بوصفهم «فيانترا» (vyantara).
Śiva (deduced from context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Interlocutor within Prabhāsa-māhātmya frame
Scene: A dark, almost shadow-substance group of beings is shown moving through inner corridors and between spaces—behind walls, within groves, near shrines—while a narrator points out that they are primordial leaders of bhūtas.
FAQs
It presents a dharmic cosmos where even fearsome beings have defined roles and hierarchies.
Prabhāsakṣetra; the māhātmya context frames these beings as part of the kṣetra’s wider sacred order.
None in this verse.