Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
पुरा कामो मया दग्धो यदा तत्र वरानने । तदा रतिः समागम्य विललाप सुदुःखिता
purā kāmo mayā dagdho yadā tatra varānane | tadā ratiḥ samāgamya vilalāpa suduḥkhitā
હે વરાનને! પૂર્વકાળે જ્યારે મેં ત્યાં કામદેવને દગ્ધ કર્યો, ત્યારે રતિ મારી પાસે આવી અત્યંત દુઃખથી વિલાપ કરવા લાગી।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva recalls the moment after Kāma’s burning; Rati approaches, grief-stricken, lamenting before the Lord in a sacred landscape.
FAQs
Desire is subdued by divine tapas and grace; yet compassion remains central as the divine responds to suffering.
The narrative is given to explain a Prabhāsakṣetra-linked manifestation (Kṛtasmaradeva), though this verse itself names the event rather than the spot.
None; it is a narrative recollection introducing the tīrtha’s origin story.