Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
अग्निष्वात्ता बर्हिषदः सोमपा आज्यपास्तथा । लिंगं संस्थापयामासुः सर्वे भक्तिपरायणाः
agniṣvāttā barhiṣadaḥ somapā ājyapāstathā | liṃgaṃ saṃsthāpayāmāsuḥ sarve bhaktiparāyaṇāḥ
অগ্নিষ্বাত্ত, বর্হিষদ, সোমপা এবং আজ্যপা—সকলেই ভক্তিতে পরায়ণ হয়ে শিবলিঙ্গ প্রতিষ্ঠা করলেন।
Īśvara (Śiva) (continuing narration to Mahādevī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa (liṅga-sthāpana-sthāna)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Four classes of Pitṛs—Agniṣvāttas, Barhiṣads, Somapās, Ājyapās—collectively installing a Śiva-liṅga at Prabhāsa: ritual vessels, sacred grass, offerings, and a newly set liṅga on a pedestal, with devotional intensity.
FAQs
Ancestral beings themselves model devotion by establishing Śiva worship, linking pitṛ-dharma with śaiva-bhakti.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where the Pitṛs established a liṅga.
Liṅga-pratiṣṭhā (establishing a Śiva-liṅga), presented as an exemplary act of devotion.
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