Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15
तस्य चिंतयतो धीमानाजगाम महातपाः । वसिष्ठो ब्रह्मपुत्रस्तु स तं पप्रच्छ पार्थिवः
tasya ciṃtayato dhīmānājagāma mahātapāḥ | vasiṣṭho brahmaputrastu sa taṃ papraccha pārthivaḥ
Alors que ce roi sage était absorbé dans ses pensées anxieuses, le grand ascète Vasiṣṭha, fils de Brahmā, vint à lui. En le voyant, le souverain interrogea le sage.
Narrator (Purāṇic narration; contextually Sūta in many recensions)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: The anxious king sits or stands in thought; Vasiṣṭha, radiant and austere with matted locks and staff, approaches across the sacred ground; the king rises to question him.
FAQs
A seeker’s crisis becomes the doorway for guidance when a realized sage appears and is respectfully questioned.
Prabhāsakṣetra (Prabhāsa), introduced in the surrounding māhātmya as a liberating sacred landscape.
None explicitly here; it sets up the inquiry that leads to tīrtha-darśana and snāna instructions later.