Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 36
यदि न स्यान्महामाया ब्रह्मविष्णुशिवार्चिता । तव देहोद्भवः पार्थ कथं स्यात्तत्त्वतो वद
yadi na syānmahāmāyā brahmaviṣṇuśivārcitā | tava dehodbhavaḥ pārtha kathaṃ syāttattvato vada
ಬ್ರಹ್ಮ, ವಿಷ್ಣು, ಶಿವರಿಂದ ಆರಾಧಿತ ಮಹಾಮಾಯೆ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ, ಹೇ ಪಾರ್ಥ, ನಿನ್ನ ದೇಹೋದ್ಭವ ಹೇಗೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತಿತ್ತು? ತತ್ತ್ವತಃ ಸತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಹೇಳು।
Yudhiṣṭhira
Listener: Pārtha (addressed)
Scene: A disputant challenges ‘Pārtha’ with a pointed question: without Mahāmāyā worshipped by Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, how could bodily birth occur? The Trimūrti appear as witnesses to Devī’s supremacy.
FAQs
Devī as Mahāmāyā is affirmed as foundational to manifestation; even embodied existence depends upon Śakti.
No site is named; the verse is theological, praising Devī’s cosmic necessity.
No direct ritual is stated; it implicitly supports Devī-arcana (worship of the Goddess).