Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 19
स्वस्वरूपस्थिते देवि त्वं च संसारलक्षणम् । त्वं बुद्धिस्त्वं धृतिः क्षांतिस्त्वं स्वाहा त्वं स्वधा क्षमा
svasvarūpasthite devi tvaṃ ca saṃsāralakṣaṇam | tvaṃ buddhistvaṃ dhṛtiḥ kṣāṃtistvaṃ svāhā tvaṃ svadhā kṣamā
O Goddess, abiding in Your own essential form, You are also the very mark and pattern of worldly existence. You are intellect; You are steadfastness; You are forbearance. You are Svāhā (the oblation-cry); You are Svadhā (the offering to the ancestors); You are forgiveness.
Devas (collective praise to the Devī)
Tirtha: Arbuda-kṣetra (ritual-complete tīrtha)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Devī appears as a subtle presence behind a fire-altar where svāhā is uttered, and beside a riverbank where svadhā is offered to ancestors; simultaneously she shines as intellect and forbearance within the devotee.
FAQs
The Goddess is praised as both transcendent (in her own nature) and immanent as the powers that sustain dharma—intellect, endurance, patience, and forgiveness—even within saṃsāra.
The verse functions as Devī-stuti within the Arbuda (Mount Abu) setting of the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa, framing the sacred landscape through the Goddess’s all-pervasion rather than naming a single tīrtha in this line.
It alludes to yajña and pitṛ offerings through the ritual utterances Svāhā and Svadhā, indicating the Goddess as the inner power of sacrificial rites.