Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 78
वरदोऽहं वरारोहे मंत्रस्त्वमिति चोच्यसे । अहं द्रष्टा च श्रोता च त्वं दृश्या श्रुतिरेव च
varado'haṃ varārohe maṃtrastvamiti cocyase | ahaṃ draṣṭā ca śrotā ca tvaṃ dṛśyā śrutireva ca
أيتها ذاتُ الخصرِ الجميل، أنا واهبُ النِّعَم، وأنتِ تُدعين «المانترا». أنا الرائي والسامع، وأنتِ المرئيّةُ و«الشروتي» المقدّسةُ بعينها—ومن وحدتنا تنبثق النعمةُ والكشف.
Śiva (deduced from Śiva-Śakti identification in Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Śiva seated as boon-giver with raised hand (varada-mudrā); Devī appears as a radiant mantra-garland or as a scroll of śruti transforming into sound-waves; around them, devotees listen and behold—seer/seen mirrored.
FAQs
Mantra and its fruit are divine; the knower, the knowing, and the known are unified in Śiva-Śakti.
The teaching is embedded in the glorification of Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Somnātha/Prabhāsa region).
No specific japa or vrata is prescribed here, though the verse elevates mantra as a form of the Goddess.