Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8
वह्निरुवाच । नमस्ते सर्वलोकेश उग्रमूर्ते नमोऽस्तु ते । रेतसा तव संदग्धः कुष्ठी जातो महेश्वर । कृपां कुरु महादेव मम रोगं विनाशय
vahniruvāca | namaste sarvalokeśa ugramūrte namo'stu te | retasā tava saṃdagdhaḥ kuṣṭhī jāto maheśvara | kṛpāṃ kuru mahādeva mama rogaṃ vināśaya
വഹ്നി പറഞ്ഞു— ഹേ സർവലോകേശാ, നമസ്കാരം; ഹേ ഉഗ്രമൂർത്തേ, പ്രണാമം. ഹേ മഹേശ്വരാ, നിങ്ങളുടെ തേജസ്സാൽ ദഗ്ധനായി ഞാൻ കുഷ്ഠരോഗിയായി. ഹേ മഹാദേവാ, കൃപ ചെയ്ത് എന്റെ രോഗം നശിപ്പിക്കണമേ.
Vahni / Havyavāhana (Agni)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha
Type: kshetra
Scene: Agni, once blazing, now marked by disease, folds his hands and bows to Śiva’s fierce yet compassionate form; he confesses being scorched by Śiva’s potency and begs for the destruction of his leprosy.
FAQs
Humility and surrender transform suffering into a doorway to grace; even divine beings seek Śiva’s compassion for liberation from affliction.
The Revā region’s tīrtha milieu (later specified as the bathing-place where Agni is healed).
Not yet; the verse is a supplication that sets up the prescribed tīrtha-snāna (sacred bath) in the next verse.