Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 47
आकाशप्रभवो वायुर्वायुप्राणो हुताशनः । देवा हुताशनप्राणाः प्राणोऽग्नेर्मधुसूदनः । सकथं पद्मजप्राणः प्रभासं क्षेत्रमाश्रितः
ākāśaprabhavo vāyurvāyuprāṇo hutāśanaḥ | devā hutāśanaprāṇāḥ prāṇo'gnermadhusūdanaḥ | sakathaṃ padmajaprāṇaḥ prabhāsaṃ kṣetramāśritaḥ
Dari ākāśa lahir vāyu; nyawa vāyu adalah api. Para dewa hidup oleh api, dan nyawa api adalah Madhusūdana (Viṣṇu). Maka bagaimana Ia—yang menjadi nyawa Sang Teratai-lahir (Brahmā)—dapat berlindung di kṣetra suci Prabhāsa?
Pārvatī (continuation of her inquiry)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaṅkara
Scene: A cosmic diagram rendered as narrative: space giving rise to wind, wind feeding fire, gods drawing life from fire, and within fire a subtle Vishnu as its prāṇa; the question then points back to the earthly shore of Prabhāsa.
FAQs
All cosmic powers depend on a higher life-principle, yet that supreme principle can be intimately present in a tīrtha—showing the meeting of metaphysics and sacred geography.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, presented as a place worthy even of the supreme sustaining principle.
None directly; the verse is a doctrinal buildup to Śiva’s explanation of Prabhāsa’s incomparable merit.