Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
देव्युवाच । पूर्वेषामुक्तदेवानां माहात्म्यं कथितं त्वया । प्रभासे बालरूपीति यत्प्रोक्तं तत्कथं वचः
devyuvāca | pūrveṣāmuktadevānāṃ māhātmyaṃ kathitaṃ tvayā | prabhāse bālarūpīti yatproktaṃ tatkathaṃ vacaḥ
Die Göttin sprach: Du hast die Größe der zuvor genannten Gottheiten geschildert. Doch in Prabhāsa sagtest du, Pitāmaha sei „in der Gestalt eines Kindes“ — wie ist diese Aussage zu verstehen?
Devī (Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Bāla-Pitāmaha tradition)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (explicit: ‘Devī uvāca’)
Scene: Devī, seated in attentive posture, asks a sage/narrator about the paradox of Brahmā appearing as a child at Prabhāsa; behind them, a faint vision of the child-form Pitāmaha near the coastal shrine complex.
FAQs
Sacred places preserve unique divine manifestations; inquiry (praśna) is honored as the doorway to understanding māhātmya.
Prabhāsa, where Pitāmaha (Brahmā) is said to appear in a child-form.
None; this verse is a theological question prompting a detailed explanation.