Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 38
तत्र देवी महाभागा योगनिद्रादिभूषिता । देवी कांतिस्तथा श्रद्धा द्युतिस्तुष्टिस्तथैव च
tatra devī mahābhāgā yoganidrādibhūṣitā | devī kāṃtistathā śraddhā dyutistuṣṭistathaiva ca
সেখানে মহাভাগ্যা দেবী যোগনিদ্রা প্রভৃতি অলংকারে বিভূষিতা হয়ে এলেন; সঙ্গে দেবী কান্তি, শ্রদ্ধা, দ্যুতি ও তুষ্টিও উপস্থিত হলেন।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrimage-inquirer audience (ṛṣi/saunaka-style setting implied)
Scene: At Prabhāsa by the sea, a luminous Mahādevī arrives attended by personified virtues—Yoga-nidrā, Kānti, Śraddhā, Dyuti, Tuṣṭi—forming a radiant retinue around her.
FAQs
Sacred rites are sustained by inner virtues—faith, radiance, contentment—personified as goddesses who support dharma.
Prabhāsakṣetra, shown as a locus where the Goddess and her powers gather, magnifying the kṣetra’s spiritual potency.
No direct injunction is stated; the verse emphasizes the auspicious presence of Devī and her attendant powers at the yajña.