Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 78
वरदोऽहं वरारोहे मंत्रस्त्वमिति चोच्यसे । अहं द्रष्टा च श्रोता च त्वं दृश्या श्रुतिरेव च
varado'haṃ varārohe maṃtrastvamiti cocyase | ahaṃ draṣṭā ca śrotā ca tvaṃ dṛśyā śrutireva ca
Ô toi aux hanches gracieuses, je suis le dispensateur des dons, et toi l’on te nomme le Mantra. Je suis le voyant et l’auditeur; toi, tu es ce qui est vu et la Śruti sacrée elle-même—de notre unité naissent la grâce et la révélation.
Śiva (deduced from Śiva-Śakti identification in Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya context)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Śiva seated as boon-giver with raised hand (varada-mudrā); Devī appears as a radiant mantra-garland or as a scroll of śruti transforming into sound-waves; around them, devotees listen and behold—seer/seen mirrored.
FAQs
Mantra and its fruit are divine; the knower, the knowing, and the known are unified in Śiva-Śakti.
The teaching is embedded in the glorification of Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Somnātha/Prabhāsa region).
No specific japa or vrata is prescribed here, though the verse elevates mantra as a form of the Goddess.