Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
देव्युवाच । पूर्वेषामुक्तदेवानां माहात्म्यं कथितं त्वया । प्रभासे बालरूपीति यत्प्रोक्तं तत्कथं वचः
devyuvāca | pūrveṣāmuktadevānāṃ māhātmyaṃ kathitaṃ tvayā | prabhāse bālarūpīti yatproktaṃ tatkathaṃ vacaḥ
ദേവി പറഞ്ഞു—മുന്പ് പറഞ്ഞ ദേവന്മാരുടെ മഹാത്മ്യം നിങ്ങൾ വിവരിച്ചു; എന്നാൽ പ്രഭാസത്തിൽ പിതാമഹൻ ‘ബാലരൂപി’ എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു—ആ വാക്ക് എങ്ങനെ ഗ്രഹിക്കണം?
Devī (Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Bāla-Pitāmaha tradition)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (explicit: ‘Devī uvāca’)
Scene: Devī, seated in attentive posture, asks a sage/narrator about the paradox of Brahmā appearing as a child at Prabhāsa; behind them, a faint vision of the child-form Pitāmaha near the coastal shrine complex.
FAQs
Sacred places preserve unique divine manifestations; inquiry (praśna) is honored as the doorway to understanding māhātmya.
Prabhāsa, where Pitāmaha (Brahmā) is said to appear in a child-form.
None; this verse is a theological question prompting a detailed explanation.