Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 26
तस्योच्छ्वासानिलोद्धूतं तत्तोयं सागराद्बहिः । निर्मर्यादेव युवतिरितश्चेतश्चधावति
tasyocchvāsāniloddhūtaṃ tattoyaṃ sāgarādbahiḥ | nirmaryādeva yuvatiritaścetaścadhāvati
Vom Wind seiner Ausatmungen nach außen getrieben, wird jenes Wasser über den Ozean hinausgeschleudert und eilt nach allen Seiten wie eine junge Frau, die keine Grenzen kennt.
Narrator (within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya; traditional frame: Sūta speaking to sages)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-sāgara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Ocean water bursts outward as if expelled by a hidden breath; waves and spray race in many directions, visualized as a youthful woman running freely, hair and garments streaming like foam.
FAQs
Unrestrained power causes disturbance; restraint restores harmony—an ethical mirror of inner discipline.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in whose māhātmya such cosmic imagery magnifies the sanctity of the region.
None; it is descriptive cosmological poetry.