Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 40
अयं स शुक्रो भगवन्नितीदं निवेदयामास भवाय शीघ्रम् । जग्राह शुक्रं स च देवदेवो यथोपहारं शुचिना प्रदत्तम्
ayaṃ sa śukro bhagavannitīdaṃ nivedayāmāsa bhavāya śīghram | jagrāha śukraṃ sa ca devadevo yathopahāraṃ śucinā pradattam
“This is Śukra, O Lord”—thus he swiftly reported to Bhava (Śiva). And the God of gods accepted Śukra, as one accepts a pure offering presented with reverence.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa discourse, typically Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: Nandī stands before Bhava and formally presents Śukra, announcing him; Bhava receives him calmly, like accepting a purified ritual offering; the battlefield tension softens into ritual solemnity.
FAQs
Whatever is surrendered to Śiva with purity becomes ‘accepted’ into divine order—power, pride, and even the enemy’s counsel are brought under dharma.
Kāśī’s Shaiva framework is the setting, but the verse highlights Śiva (Devadeva) rather than a named tīrtha.
Implicitly, the ethic of śuci (purity) in offering (upahāra) to the Lord; no explicit rite is detailed.