Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
तमोभावे समुत्पन्ने जातास्तत्रैव राक्षसाः । सूर्यस्य द्वेषिणः सर्वे ह्यसंख्याता महाबलाः
tamobhāve samutpanne jātāstatraiva rākṣasāḥ | sūryasya dveṣiṇaḥ sarve hyasaṃkhyātā mahābalāḥ
Als ein Zustand der Finsternis entstand, wurden dort sogleich Rākṣasas geboren — unzählige, von großer Kraft, und alle waren Hasser der Sonne.
Īśvara (Śiva) (continued narration)
Tirtha: Pātāla-vivara (contextual)
Type: cave
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: From a yawning cavern of blackness, innumerable rākṣasas surge forth—muscular, armed, shadow-hued—turning their faces upward in hatred toward the rising Sun’s first rays.
FAQs
Tamas (spiritual darkness) generates hostility to light and dharma, symbolized by beings who oppose the Sun.
The verse is part of the Pātālavivara māhātmya narration within Prabhāsa-kṣetra, setting the mythic scene.
None; this is narrative background.