Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 35
स एष वैष्णवः पादो देवि मध्ये ग्रहोऽस्य यः । नारायणाख्योऽचिंत्यात्मा कारणं जगतः प्रभुः
sa eṣa vaiṣṇavaḥ pādo devi madhye graho'sya yaḥ | nārāyaṇākhyo'ciṃtyātmā kāraṇaṃ jagataḥ prabhuḥ
Ô Déesse, voici le quartier vaiṣṇava ; l’astre placé en son centre est Celui qu’on nomme Nārāyaṇa—d’essence inconcevable—le Seigneur, cause de l’univers entier.
Deductive (Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya context): likely Skanda to Devī/Pārvatī.
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (mandala-quarter: Vaiṣṇava pāda)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A sacred mandala of Prabhāsa visualized as the divine body: the Vaiṣṇava quarter with Nārāyaṇa enthroned at the center, radiating causal light into the surrounding kṣetra.
FAQs
All cosmic organization culminates in the Supreme Lord—Nārāyaṇa—who is the unseen cause and sustaining center.
The verse occurs within Prabhāsa-kṣetra’s māhātmya, presenting the tīrtha within a Vaiṣṇava-inflected cosmic order.
None in this verse; it identifies the Vaiṣṇava quarter and its central governing principle as Nārāyaṇa.