Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 26
तिर्यगूर्ध्वमधो याति नैव याति न तिष्ठति । इति चित्रं चरित्रं ते भर्त्तुर्नान्यस्य दृश्यते
tiryagūrdhvamadho yāti naiva yāti na tiṣṭhati | iti citraṃ caritraṃ te bhartturnānyasya dṛśyate
يتحرّك يمنةً ويسرةً، صعودًا وهبوطًا؛ ومع ذلك فلا يُقال إنه «يذهب» حقًّا، ولا هو يقف ساكنًا. تلك سيرةٌ عجيبةٌ متناقضةٌ لربّك، لا تُرى في غيره.
Deductive (Vastrāpatha-kṣetra-māhātmya narrative voice; likely a local narrator/elder addressing a woman about her husband, i.e., Śiva)
Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: Śiva appears in a single frame with layered trajectories—sideways, upward, downward—while a calm, unmoving aura (halo/mandala) indicates ‘not going’; onlookers perceive a miracle at the kṣetra.
FAQs
The Divine (Śiva) transcends ordinary categories of motion and rest; his nature is beyond conceptual opposites.
Vastrāpatha-kṣetra, praised within the Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa as a Śaiva sacred landscape.
None explicitly in this verse; it is doctrinal praise describing Śiva’s transcendent nature.