Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 19
कश्यपस्य प्रवक्ष्यामि सन्ततिं वरवर्णिनि । अंशो धाता भगस्त्वष्टा मित्रोऽथ वरुणो र्यमा
kaśyapasya pravakṣyāmi santatiṃ varavarṇini | aṃśo dhātā bhagastvaṣṭā mitro'tha varuṇo ryamā
হে সুন্দরবর্ণিনী! আমি কশ্যপের সন্ততি বলছি—অংশ, ধাতা, ভগ, ত্বষ্টা, মিত্র, বরুণ ও আর্য্যমা।
Skanda (deduced from Prabhāsa Māhātmya dialogic style)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Varavarṇinī (unnamed female interlocutor)
Scene: A sage-narrator evokes Kaśyapa’s lineage before a noble lady (varavarṇinī), with seven radiant deities appearing as symbolic presences: Dhātā with scroll/creation motif, Bhaga with cornucopia, Tvaṣṭṛ with artisan tools, Mitra with clasped hands, Varuṇa with noose and ocean, Aryamā with royal/ancestral insignia, Aṃśa with solar ray emblem.
FAQs
Reverence for cosmic order (ṛta) is strengthened by remembering the divine administrators born in sacred lineages.
Prabhāsakṣetra (Prabhāsa), whose māhātmya frames these genealogies as part of sacred remembrance.
No explicit rite is stated; the passage functions as sacred recitation/remembering of divine names and lineages.