Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
विज्ञेया इह लोकेऽस्मिन्भूतानां मूलनायकाः । अतिकृष्णा भवन्त्येते व्यंतरान्तरचारिणः
vijñeyā iha loke'sminbhūtānāṃ mūlanāyakāḥ | atikṛṣṇā bhavantyete vyaṃtarāntaracāriṇaḥ
Sabe que, en este mismo mundo, éstos son los caudillos primordiales de los bhūtas. De forma sumamente oscura, se desplazan por los espacios interiores como vyantaras.
Śiva (deduced from context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Interlocutor within Prabhāsa-māhātmya frame
Scene: A dark, almost shadow-substance group of beings is shown moving through inner corridors and between spaces—behind walls, within groves, near shrines—while a narrator points out that they are primordial leaders of bhūtas.
FAQs
It presents a dharmic cosmos where even fearsome beings have defined roles and hierarchies.
Prabhāsakṣetra; the māhātmya context frames these beings as part of the kṣetra’s wider sacred order.
None in this verse.