Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 54
अधुना भक्तियुक्तस्य यथोपकरणान्मम । भविष्ये यत्फलं किंचिन्नो वेद्मि च मुनीश्वराः । येन सोमेशमुत्सृज्य अत्राहं भक्ति तत्परः
adhunā bhaktiyuktasya yathopakaraṇānmama | bhaviṣye yatphalaṃ kiṃcinno vedmi ca munīśvarāḥ | yena someśamutsṛjya atrāhaṃ bhakti tatparaḥ
今や私は信愛（バクティ）に結ばれ、相応の供養の手立ても備えておりますが、未来にいかなるさらなる果報が生ずるのかは存じませぬ、聖仙の中の主たちよ——ソーメーシュヴァラさえ離れ、この地にて一心に帰依し奉っているゆえです。
Narrator/Īśvara (contextual)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Somnātha)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Munīśvaras (lords among sages)
Scene: A devotee-king addresses sages, gesturing toward the Prabhāsa liṅga; in the background, a faint depiction of another shrine labeled Someśvara is left behind on a path, symbolizing renunciation of alternatives for single-point devotion.
FAQs
When devotion becomes intense and well-supported, its fruits surpass calculation—true bhakti opens unknowable future grace.
Prabhāsa kṣetra, in relation to Someśvara (Somnātha) and the surrounding sacred landscape.
Worship performed with bhakti and appropriate upakaraṇa (requisites), implying well-prepared pūjā and observance.