Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 75
पर्जन्योऽहं महाभागे त्वं वृष्टिः परमेश्वरि । अहं संवत्सरो देवि त्वमृतुः परिकीर्त्तिता
parjanyo'haṃ mahābhāge tvaṃ vṛṣṭiḥ parameśvari | ahaṃ saṃvatsaro devi tvamṛtuḥ parikīrttitā
O most fortunate one, I am Parjanya, the rain-bearing cloud, and you, O Supreme Goddess, are the rainfall itself. I am the year, O Devī, and you are proclaimed to be the seasons.
Śiva (deduced from Śiva-Śakti identification in Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Śiva and Devī as cosmic regulators: he as the rain-cloud and the year, she as rainfall and seasons; the world below flourishes—fields, rivers, and pilgrims moving in orderly cycles.
FAQs
Śiva and Śakti together manifest and sustain cosmic rhythms; devotion sees the divine in nature’s order.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra (the Prabhāsa sacred region, associated with Somnātha) within the Skanda Purana’s Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa.
No explicit rite is stated in this verse; it functions as a theological praise of divine immanence.