Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 18
पूर्वकल्पे श्रिया वृत्तो वामनस्तु द्वितीयके । वज्रांगस्तु तृतीये वै तुरीये कमलाप्रियः
pūrvakalpe śriyā vṛtto vāmanastu dvitīyake | vajrāṃgastu tṛtīye vai turīye kamalāpriyaḥ
পূৰ্ব কল্পত তেঁও “শ্ৰিয়াবৃত্ত” নামে পৰিচিত আছিল; দ্বিতীয়ত “বামন”; তৃতীয়ত নিশ্চয় “বজ্ৰাঙ্গ”; আৰু চতুৰ্থত “কমলাপ্ৰিয়” (লক্ষ্মীৰ প্ৰিয়)।
Narrator (contextual, within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya; exact speaker not explicit in the given snippet)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: A four-panel kalpa sequence: the same radiant deity shown with subtle iconographic shifts, each panel labeled with the epithet—Śriyā-vṛtta, Vāmana, Vajrāṅga, Kamalāpriya—set against a continuous Prabhāsa coastal horizon.
FAQs
The Divine is one, yet is praised through many names and forms across cosmic cycles; devotion deepens by remembering these sacred epithets.
Prabhāsakṣetra (Prabhāsa), presented as a field of divine manifestation where the Lord’s greatness is recounted.
No direct ritual is stated here; the verse functions as nāma-smaraṇa (recollection of divine names) within the Māhātmya.