Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 6
देव्युवाच । अगस्तिनेह वातापिः किमर्थमुपशामितः । अत्र वै किंप्रभावश्च स दैत्यो ब्राह्मणांतकः । किमर्थं चोद्गतो मन्युरगस्तेस्तु महात्मनः
devyuvāca | agastineha vātāpiḥ kimarthamupaśāmitaḥ | atra vai kiṃprabhāvaśca sa daityo brāhmaṇāṃtakaḥ | kimarthaṃ codgato manyuragastestu mahātmanaḥ
قالت الإلهة: «لِمَ خُضِعَ فاطابي هنا على يد أغاستيا؟ وأيُّ أثرٍ خاصٍّ في هذا الموضع، مع أنّ ذلك العِفريت كان قاتلًا للبراهمة؟ ولأيِّ سببٍ نهض الغضب في قلب أغاستيا العظيم النفس؟»
Devī (Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Agastya-āśrama / Vātāpi-śamana-sthāna in Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: The Goddess (as Devī) addresses a narrator/ṛṣi in an āśrama setting, gesturing toward the sacred ground; in the background, a subdued demon figure symbolizes Vātāpi; Agastya is depicted as great-souled, his controlled anger shown as a radiant aura rather than violence.
FAQs
It frames tīrtha-māhātmya as a question of “prabhāva”—how sanctity empowers dharma to overcome destructive forces.
The context is Agastya’s āśrama area on the Nyaṅkumatī bank within Prabhāsa kṣetra.
None; it is an inquiry initiating the explanatory legend.