Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 29
प्रसीद भगवंस्तस्माल्लिंगमेतत्सुरेश्वर । स्थाने स्थापय भद्रं ते यावन्न स्यात्प्रजाक्षयः
prasīda bhagavaṃstasmālliṃgametatsureśvara | sthāne sthāpaya bhadraṃ te yāvanna syātprajākṣayaḥ
সেয়ে হে ভগৱান, হে সুৰেশ্বৰ, কৃপা কৰ। এই লিঙ্গক তাৰ যোগ্য স্থানে স্থাপন কৰ—তোমাৰ মঙ্গল হওক—যাতে প্ৰজাৰ ক্ষয় নঘটে।
Devas
Tirtha: Arbuda-kṣetra liṅga-sthāna (unnamed in this verse)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Frame-audience
Scene: Devotees/devas supplicate Śiva with folded hands before a displaced or fallen liṅga; the landscape indicates Arbuda hills; urgency to reinstall the liṅga.
FAQs
Divine presence anchored in a sacred form is sought for loka-saṅgraha—the welfare and continuity of beings—showing dharma as protection of life and order.
The Liṅga at/near Vālakhilyāśrama in the Arbuda Khaṇḍa setting, whose ‘proper placing’ sacralizes the landscape.
A clear implication of liṅga-sthāpana/pratiṣṭhā (establishing the Liṅga in its rightful place) as a stabilizing sacred act.