Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 13
ऋषिरुवाच । किं न पश्यसि मे ब्रह्मन्कराच्छाकर सं च्युतम् । अत एव हि मे नृत्यं सिद्धोऽहं नात्र संशयः
ṛṣiruvāca | kiṃ na paśyasi me brahmankarācchākara saṃ cyutam | ata eva hi me nṛtyaṃ siddho'haṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ
Der Weise sprach: „Siehst du nicht, o Brāhmaṇa, den Zuckerklumpen, der aus meiner Hand gefallen ist? Eben darum tanze ich — ohne Zweifel habe ich Siddhi erlangt.“
Ṛṣi (sage)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pārvatī
Scene: The sage points to a fallen lump of sugar from his hand, proclaiming it as proof of siddhi, while the disguised brāhmaṇa listens—an ironic, instructive moment.
FAQs
A practitioner may interpret small signs as proof of attainment, but true siddhi is tested by higher divine discernment.
Prabhāsakṣetra, the sacred locale whose Māhātmya frames this dialogue.
No explicit ritual is stated; the verse alludes to tapas and the idea of siddhi as a result of practice.