Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 58
अथागत्य महादेवो दृष्ट्वा तान्ब्राह्मणोत्तमान् । अपश्यमानो विबुधांस्तत्र यज्ञं जघान सः
athāgatya mahādevo dṛṣṭvā tānbrāhmaṇottamān | apaśyamāno vibudhāṃstatra yajñaṃ jaghāna saḥ
তেতিয়া মহাদেৱ আহি, সেই শ্ৰেষ্ঠ ব্ৰাহ্মণসকলক দেখি, আৰু তাত দেৱতাসকলক নেদেখি, সেই যজ্ঞখন ধ্বংস কৰিলে।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) to the sages (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: (Contextually Devī/Umā in surrounding dialogue)
Scene: Mahādeva arrives at the sacrificial ground; eminent brāhmaṇas stand by; the absence of the devas is felt; Śiva’s gaze hardens and the yajña is struck down—fire, altar, and order disrupted by divine retribution.
FAQs
Sacrifice divorced from humility and right worship collapses; the Lord corrects ritualism to restore true dharma.
Prabhāsakṣetra, whose Māhātmya uses such cosmic episodes to heighten the sanctity of the pilgrimage region.
No prescription is given; the verse narrates the destruction of the yajña (sacrifice) as a doctrinal warning.