Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15
रुद्रवीर्यस्य युक्तेन तलेनोदारकर्मणा । मल्लयुद्धेन बलिना महेन्द्रो विनिपातितः
rudravīryasya yuktena talenodārakarmaṇā | mallayuddhena balinā mahendro vinipātitaḥ
そのときマヘーンドラは、ルドラの威力を帯び、行い高雅なる剛勇タラにより、力強きマッラ（組み討ち）の戦いで打ち倒された。
Śiva
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: A addressed female interlocutor ("varārohe" appears in the passage-context)
Scene: A colossal wrestler-hero Talo, glowing with Rudra’s potency, strikes down Mahendra in a fierce mallayuddha; the battlefield is charged with divine heat and dust.
FAQs
Divine power aligned with Rudra restores balance by subduing adharma; sacred sites commemorate such restorations as sources of merit.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, through the origin account of Tala-svāmin (also known as Taptodaka-svāmin).
None; the verse is narrative, establishing the deity’s victorious, protective character.