Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 10
युद्धं स प्रार्थयामास मया सार्द्धं सुभीषणम् । ततोऽभवन्महायुद्धं ब्रह्माण्डक्षयकारकम्
yuddhaṃ sa prārthayāmāsa mayā sārddhaṃ subhīṣaṇam | tato'bhavanmahāyuddhaṃ brahmāṇḍakṣayakārakam
Il réclama contre moi un combat redoutable. Alors s’éleva une grande guerre, capable d’anéantir jusqu’à la sphère cosmique (Brahmāṇḍa).
Śiva
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: A Devī addressed as ‘varānane’/‘deveśi’ (goddess interlocutor within the narrative frame)
Scene: A titanic duel is invoked—two superhuman figures poised amid storming skies; weapons and mantras collide, suggesting a battle that could crack the ‘brahmāṇḍa’. The horizon glows with apocalyptic light over a sacred coastal plain.
FAQs
When adharma-driven power confronts the divine order, conflict becomes cosmic; the kṣetra remembers such events as sanctifying history.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the account leading to the manifestation called Tala-svāmin/Taptodaka-svāmin.
None; it sets the dramatic context for the tīrtha’s emergence.