Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
प्रहस्तं प्रेषयामास किमिदं व्रज मेदिनीम् । अहताऽस्य गतिर्यस्मात्त्रैलोक्ये सचराचरे
prahastaṃ preṣayāmāsa kimidaṃ vraja medinīm | ahatā'sya gatiryasmāttrailokye sacarācare
Il envoya Prahasta en disant : «Qu’est-ce donc ? Descends sur la terre et enquête.» Car jamais, en aucun lieu des trois mondes, parmi les êtres mobiles et immobiles, sa course n’avait été entravée.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya)
Tirtha: Rāvaṇeśvara / Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Rāvaṇa, astonished and irritated, orders Prahasta to descend; Prahasta leaps or rides downward through clouds toward the glowing earth below; the halted Puṣpaka hangs overhead.
FAQs
Pride in unchecked power is humbled when one encounters a divinely protected sacred landscape.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra, implicitly shown as a realm where ordinary cosmic rules are suspended by Śiva’s presence.
None; it is a narrative instruction to investigate the cause of a miraculous stoppage.