Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 27
अमीषामपि शस्त्राणा मुत्तमं वज्रमिष्यते । तद्धारणाद्यतोऽस्माकं देवराजत्वमिष्यते
amīṣāmapi śastrāṇā muttamaṃ vajramiṣyate | taddhāraṇādyato'smākaṃ devarājatvamiṣyate
इन सब शस्त्रों में वज्र को ही सर्वोत्तम माना गया है। क्योंकि उसे धारण करने से हमारा देवराजत्व—इन्द्रपद—निश्चय ही सुरक्षित और प्रतिष्ठित होता है।
Śakra (Indra)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (Naimiṣāraṇya-style audience, typical)
Scene: Indra (Śakra) in a celestial court, holding or contemplating the vajra, speaking of its preeminence among weapons; devas assembled, aura of sovereignty and storm-light.
FAQs
Power and rulership are portrayed as dependent on divinely sanctioned instruments used in the service of protection, not ego.
The verse occurs within the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya’s narrative flow, though it discusses cosmic weaponry rather than local rites.
None; it is a statement of symbolic theology about the vajra and Indra’s office.
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