Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 8
त्वं हि स्वायंभुवे यज्ञे सुत्याहे वितते हरिः । संभूतः संहितां वक्तुं स्वांशेन पुरुषोत्तमः
tvaṃ hi svāyaṃbhuve yajñe sutyāhe vitate hariḥ | saṃbhūtaḥ saṃhitāṃ vaktuṃ svāṃśena puruṣottamaḥ
Pues en verdad, en el vasto día del prensado del Soma del sacrificio de Svāyambhuva, naciste como Hari—el mismo Puruṣottama—por una porción de su propia esencia, para exponer el compendio.
Naimiṣeya Maharṣis (the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)
Tirtha: Svāyambhuva-yajña (mythic)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sūta
Scene: A grand Soma-pressing day: priests, soma vessels, fire altars; from the sacrificial radiance, Hari’s aṃśa manifests as the destined narrator to speak the saṃhitā.
FAQs
Purāṇic teaching is treated as divinely empowered; the narrator’s role is sanctified as service to dharma and sacred memory.
Not a tīrtha verse; it legitimizes the forthcoming Prabhāsa Kṣetra account through a divine origin motif.
The setting references soma-pressing within a yajña (sutyāha), pointing to Vedic ritual context, though no instruction is given.