Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 23
दितिः पुत्रद्वयं लेभे कश्यपाद्बलगर्वितम् । हिरण्यकशिपुं श्रेष्ठं हिरण्याक्षं तथानुजम्
ditiḥ putradvayaṃ lebhe kaśyapādbalagarvitam | hiraṇyakaśipuṃ śreṣṭhaṃ hiraṇyākṣaṃ tathānujam
दिति ने कश्यप से बल-गर्व से युक्त दो पुत्रों को जन्म दिया—श्रेष्ठ हिरण्यकशिपु और उसका छोटा भाई हिरण्याक्ष।
Skanda (deduced from Prabhāsa Māhātmya dialogic style)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: Diti, solemn and radiant, receives two formidable infants from Kaśyapa—Hiraṇyakaśipu and Hiraṇyākṣa—shown with subtle ominous aura (garva) amid a hermitage setting.
FAQs
Power without humility tends toward adharma; lineage accounts in the Purāṇas warn against pride in strength.
Prabhāsakṣetra, within whose māhātmya these genealogies are recounted as sacred history.
None; it is narrative genealogy.