Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9
तत्र क्षिप्तानि जातानि ततस्ते विस्मयान्विताः । अथोचुर्मुनयः सर्वे निर्विण्णाश्चास्य चेष्टितम्
tatra kṣiptāni jātāni tataste vismayānvitāḥ | athocurmunayaḥ sarve nirviṇṇāścāsya ceṣṭitam
അവിടെ എറിഞ്ഞതെല്ലാം വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും ഉദ്ഭവിച്ചതിനാൽ അവർ അത്ഭുതത്തിൽ മുങ്ങി. പിന്നെ, അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ അതിശയ ലീല മനസ്സിലാക്കാനാകാതെ ക്ഷീണിച്ച്, എല്ലാ മുനിമാരും പറഞ്ഞു।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī/Umā (implied by prior vocatives)
Scene: A circle of sages, faces tired yet luminous, confer and speak together; behind them the pavilion and scattered kapālas; the mood shifts from shock to sober deliberation.
FAQs
When reason reaches its limit, the proper response is humility and turning to prayer.
Prabhāsakṣetra, where sages directly encounter signs compelling devotion.
No explicit prescription; it sets up the transition from observation to liturgical praise (stotra).