Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 18
वपुः प्राप्तं तया यस्मात्तस्मात्पा र्थिवसत्तम । नाम्ना वपुरिति ख्याता सा बभूव वराप्सराः
vapuḥ prāptaṃ tayā yasmāttasmātpā rthivasattama | nāmnā vapuriti khyātā sā babhūva varāpsarāḥ
যেহেতু সে দিব্য দেহ (বপুঃ) লাভ করল, তাই হে রাজশ্রেষ্ঠ, সে ‘বপুর’ নামে খ্যাত হল এবং শ্রেষ্ঠ অপ্সরা হয়ে উঠল।
Pulastya (continuing narration)
Listener: A king (pārthiva-sattama)
Scene: The transformed woman now appears as an excellent apsaras, radiant and exquisitely formed; the narration explains her name ‘Vapur’ derived from her splendid body.
FAQs
Punya gained through sacred observance can refine even one’s embodied condition, symbolized by the attainment of a luminous ‘vapuḥ’ and a new divine identity.
The verse ties the fruit to the earlier described sacred bathing context in Arbuda-khaṇḍa; the precise site is developed in adjacent verses.
Implicitly, the merit of the prescribed snāna culminates in transformation; no new ritual detail is added here.