Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
तस्यास्यं चाभवेद्घोरं दंष्ट्रा दुर्दर्शनं महत् । हनुरेकः स्थितस्तस्य भूमावेको दिवं गतः
tasyāsyaṃ cābhavedghoraṃ daṃṣṭrā durdarśanaṃ mahat | hanurekaḥ sthitastasya bhūmāveko divaṃ gataḥ
Sa bouche était terrible, avec d’énormes crocs effrayants, difficiles à soutenir du regard ; et de ses deux mâchoires, l’une reposait sur la terre tandis que l’autre montait jusqu’aux cieux.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Purāṇic interlocutor(s)
Scene: Close focus on Mada’s dreadful mouth: massive fangs like white cliffs; one jaw planted on earth, the other arcing into the sky; tiny figures and sacrificial posts appear between the jaws, emphasizing scale and terror.
FAQs
Adharmic power becomes monstrous and all-consuming, symbolically spanning earth to heaven and threatening cosmic order.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where the narrative magnifies the sacred setting through cosmic descriptions.
None; it continues the narrative description of the manifested being.