Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 201
यक्षविद्याधराणां च तानि चक्रे स विश्वकृत् । ततः षोडशमं भागं बिभर्त्ति भगवान्रविः । तत्तेजो रविभागश्च खस्थो विचरति प्रिये
yakṣavidyādharāṇāṃ ca tāni cakre sa viśvakṛt | tataḥ ṣoḍaśamaṃ bhāgaṃ bibhartti bhagavānraviḥ | tattejo ravibhāgaśca khastho vicarati priye
Lui, l’artisan de l’univers, façonna aussi ces choses pour les Yakṣas et les Vidyādharas. Ensuite, le bienheureux Ravi (le Soleil) porte la seizième part de cette radiance ; et cette splendeur—la part de Ravi—chemine dans le ciel, ô bien-aimée.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: priye (addressed as ‘O beloved’ within the verse)
Scene: Viśvakṛt fashions ornaments/weapons for Yakṣas and Vidyādharas; above, Sūrya bears a ‘sixteenth portion’ of tejas, moving across the sky in a controlled, beneficent blaze.
FAQs
Even cosmic brilliance is regulated and apportioned for the welfare of beings—divine power is tempered into a form the world can bear.
Prabhāsakṣetra, whose māhātmya frames this cosmological account.
None directly; the verse explains a doctrinal/cosmological transformation of solar radiance.