Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 14
एवमुक्त्वा समुद्रस्य तदा देव्या समर्प्पितः । वाडवोऽग्निः सरस्वत्या सुरादेशान्महाबलः
evamuktvā samudrasya tadā devyā samarppitaḥ | vāḍavo'gniḥ sarasvatyā surādeśānmahābalaḥ
فلما قالت ذلك، سلّمت الإلهة ساراسفتي—امتثالًا لأمر الآلهة—نار الوادَفا العظيمة القوة إلى المحيط في ذلك الحين.
Sūta (deduced: Māhātmya narration style within Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-samudra-tīrtha (Vāḍava-nyāsa context)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Sarasvatī, luminous and composed, hands over the blazing Vāḍava fire to the personified Ocean; devas witness the transfer as a solemn cosmic rite.
FAQs
Divine power is to be placed under dharmic restraint—Sarasvatī entrusts even fearsome fire only under the gods’ ordained order.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra, especially the sacred meeting of Sarasvatī and the Ocean (saṅgama) within the Prabhāsa Māhātmya.
None explicitly in this verse; it narrates a sacred episode establishing the tīrtha’s divine history.