Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 16
ईश्वर उवाच । वरं वृणीष्व भद्रं ते वरदोऽहं तवानघ । यमिच्छसि ददाम्यद्य नात्र कार्या विचारणा
īśvara uvāca | varaṃ vṛṇīṣva bhadraṃ te varado'haṃ tavānagha | yamicchasi dadāmyadya nātra kāryā vicāraṇā
Īśvara dit : «Choisis une grâce ; que l’auspice soit tien. Ô irréprochable, je suis celui qui t’accorde les dons. Ce que tu désires, je te l’accorde aujourd’hui ; ici, point besoin de délibération».
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Revā-tīra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahārāja
Scene: Śiva speaks compassionately to the prostrate devotee: ‘Choose a boon’; His hand raised in varada-mudrā, face serene yet powerful, aura luminous; the devotee looks up with folded hands, ready to ask.
FAQs
When devotion matures through discipline, the Lord responds with immediate grace and the freedom to ask a boon.
The boon-dialogue unfolds within the Revā/Narmadā sacred landscape where Śiva’s presence is especially near to devotees.
No prescription; it is the divine assurance of boon (vara) as the fruit of prior worship.