Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 51
इत्युक्ता कौशिकी देवी ततेत्याह पितामहम् । निर्गतायां च कौशिक्यां जाता स्वैराश्रिता गुणैः
ityuktā kauśikī devī tatetyāha pitāmaham | nirgatāyāṃ ca kauśikyāṃ jātā svairāśritā guṇaiḥ
এভাবে সম্বোধিত হলে কৌশিকী দেবী পিতামহ (ব্রহ্মা)-কে বললেন—“তথাস্তु।” আর কৌশিকী প্রস্থান করতেই আর এক রূপ উদ্ভূত হল, স্বেচ্ছানুসারী ও নিজ গুণে প্রতিষ্ঠিত।
Narrator (Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa, per Māheśvarakhaṇḍa convention)
Listener: Purāṇic audience (not explicit)
Scene: Kauśikī Devī, having said ‘tathā’, departs; in her wake a new form arises—self-established in her own qualities—suggesting a luminous splitting/emanation moment.
FAQs
Devī’s freedom (svaira) and her guṇas operate in service of dharma—her forms arise and depart according to cosmic necessity.
No specific tīrtha is mentioned in this verse.
None; it records assent (“tat”) and the narrative transition after Kauśikī’s departure.