Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
कालांतरे महादेवि अहं तत्र समागतः । तेषां जिज्ञासया देवि ततस्ते रोषिता भवन् । शप्तस्ततोऽहं देवेशि चक्रुर्मे लिंगपातनम्
kālāṃtare mahādevi ahaṃ tatra samāgataḥ | teṣāṃ jijñāsayā devi tataste roṣitā bhavan | śaptastato'haṃ deveśi cakrurme liṃgapātanam
وبعد حينٍ من الزمان، يا مها ديفي، جئتُ إلى هناك. يا إلهة، ومن رغبتهم في امتحاني ومعرفتي استشاطوا غضبًا؛ ثم، يا سيّدة الآلهة، لُعِنتُ، وجعلوا لِنگاي يُلقى إلى أسفل.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Mūlacaṇḍīśa (etiology via curse)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva arrives at the sages’ forest hermitage; the sages, intent on testing him, flare into anger; a curse is pronounced; the liṅga is cast down—an intense moral drama in a sacred grove.
FAQs
Spiritual pride and suspicion can lead to adharma (cursing, hostility), while the divine still turns such episodes into sacred instruction through tīrtha-history.
The Devadāruvana-linked locus within Prabhāsa Kṣetra where the liṅga-pātana episode is remembered as part of Mūlacaṇḍīśa’s origin.
None; the verse narrates the cause-and-effect leading to liṅga-pātana.