Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 58
त्वं देवि चावतारेषु विष्णोः साहाय्यकारिणी । विष्णुनाभ्यर्थ्यसे तस्मात्त्राहि मातर्नमोऽस्तु ते
tvaṃ devi cāvatāreṣu viṣṇoḥ sāhāyyakāriṇī | viṣṇunābhyarthyase tasmāttrāhi mātarnamo'stu te
हे देवी! विष्णु के अवतारों में तुम सहायक शक्ति बनती हो। इसलिए स्वयं विष्णु भी तुम्हें प्रार्थना करते हैं; अतः हे माता, मेरी रक्षा करो—तुम्हें नमस्कार है।
Bhīma
Scene: Devī stands behind a sequence of Viṣṇu avatāras as their empowering radiance; Viṣṇu himself folds hands to her, while the devotee pleads for protection.
FAQs
Śakti is indispensable even to divine descents—Devī is the enabling power behind avatāra-work and thus the supreme refuge.
No site is named; the verse emphasizes Devī’s cosmic role in avatāra narratives rather than a local māhātmya.
None; it is a theological stuti culminating in a direct plea for protection (trāhi).