Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 6
देव्युवाच । अगस्तिनेह वातापिः किमर्थमुपशामितः । अत्र वै किंप्रभावश्च स दैत्यो ब्राह्मणांतकः । किमर्थं चोद्गतो मन्युरगस्तेस्तु महात्मनः
devyuvāca | agastineha vātāpiḥ kimarthamupaśāmitaḥ | atra vai kiṃprabhāvaśca sa daityo brāhmaṇāṃtakaḥ | kimarthaṃ codgato manyuragastestu mahātmanaḥ
The Goddess said: “Why was Vātāpi subdued here by Agastya? What special power abides in this place, since that demon was a slayer of brāhmaṇas? And for what reason did anger arise in the great-souled Agastya?”
Devī (Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Agastya-āśrama / Vātāpi-śamana-sthāna in Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: The Goddess (as Devī) addresses a narrator/ṛṣi in an āśrama setting, gesturing toward the sacred ground; in the background, a subdued demon figure symbolizes Vātāpi; Agastya is depicted as great-souled, his controlled anger shown as a radiant aura rather than violence.
FAQs
It frames tīrtha-māhātmya as a question of “prabhāva”—how sanctity empowers dharma to overcome destructive forces.
The context is Agastya’s āśrama area on the Nyaṅkumatī bank within Prabhāsa kṣetra.
None; it is an inquiry initiating the explanatory legend.