Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 38
वासुदेवोऽपि नित्यं तां स्तौति शक्तिं परात्पराम् । अहं यदि चिकित्स्यः स्यां चिकित्स्यः सोऽपि किं भवान्
vāsudevo'pi nityaṃ tāṃ stauti śaktiṃ parātparām | ahaṃ yadi cikitsyaḥ syāṃ cikitsyaḥ so'pi kiṃ bhavān
വാസുദേവനും നിത്യമായി ആ പരാത്പര ശക്തിയെ സ്തുതിക്കുന്നു. ഞാൻ ‘ചികിത്സ്യൻ’ ആണെങ്കിൽ, അവനും ‘ചികിത്സ്യൻ’; പിന്നെ നിനക്കേത്?
Yudhiṣṭhira
Scene: A confident speaker cites Vāsudeva’s constant praise of the supreme Śakti, then turns the argument with a cutting analogy: if I need ‘treatment,’ then so does Vāsudeva—what about you?
FAQs
Devī-bhakti is validated even by Vāsudeva; disparaging such praise is shown to be misguided.
No tīrtha is referenced; the verse emphasizes pan-Purāṇic devotion to the Supreme Śakti.
The implied practice is stuti (hymnic praise) of Devī as parātparā Śakti.