Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
तत्रोद्गता महातालास्तेन तालवनं स्मृतम् । अथ करतले लग्नं कपालं ब्रह्मणो मम
tatrodgatā mahātālāstena tālavanaṃ smṛtam | atha karatale lagnaṃ kapālaṃ brahmaṇo mama
അവിടെ മഹാതാളവൃക്ഷങ്ങൾ മുളച്ചു; അതുകൊണ്ട് അത് ‘താളവനം’ എന്നു പ്രസിദ്ധമായി. പിന്നെ ബ്രഹ്മാവിന്റെ കപാലം എന്റെ കൈത്തളത്തിൽ ഒട്ടിപ്പിടിച്ചു.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Tālavana (associated sacred grove)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience in the Prabhāsa-māhātmya frame (not explicit)
Scene: A grove erupts with tall palmyra trees; Śiva looks at his palm where Brahmā’s skull adheres, unable to be shaken off—an ominous yet wondrous sign.
FAQs
Places gain sacred identity through divine events; names like Tālavana encode memory of mythic happenings tied to purification.
Tālavana is mentioned as a remembered sacred locale within the larger Prabhāsa-kṣetra narrative arc.
None explicitly; the verse provides mythic etiology (name-origin) and the kapāla-bondage motif.