Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 102
एवं स वाडवो वह्निः सुराणां भक्षणोद्यतः । वंचितो विष्णुना याति मेधामाधाय यत्नतः
evaṃ sa vāḍavo vahniḥ surāṇāṃ bhakṣaṇodyataḥ | vaṃcito viṣṇunā yāti medhāmādhāya yatnataḥ
এইদৰে দেৱতাসকলক ভক্ষণ কৰিবলৈ উদ্যত সেই বাডৱ অগ্নি বিষ্ণুৱে কৌশলেৰে বঞ্চিত কৰিলে; আৰু সি যত্নেৰে নিজৰ সংকল্প সংযমত ধৰি প্ৰস্থান কৰিলে।
Narrator
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: (Contextual) audience/ṛṣis
Scene: The Vāḍava fire, personified as a fierce, horse-faced or flame-bodied being, surges toward the devas; Viṣṇu intervenes with calm authority, and the fire’s momentum collapses into controlled withdrawal, as if bound by an unseen vow.
FAQs
The Preserver protects cosmic balance not only by force but by upāya—skillful, dharmic strategy.
Prabhāsakṣetra, whose māhātmya recounts divine interventions linked to the ocean and world-protection.
No explicit rite; the verse concludes a protective episode (rakṣaṇa) within the kṣetra’s praise.
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