Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
कालांतरे महादेवि अहं तत्र समागतः । तेषां जिज्ञासया देवि ततस्ते रोषिता भवन् । शप्तस्ततोऽहं देवेशि चक्रुर्मे लिंगपातनम्
kālāṃtare mahādevi ahaṃ tatra samāgataḥ | teṣāṃ jijñāsayā devi tataste roṣitā bhavan | śaptastato'haṃ deveśi cakrurme liṃgapātanam
കാലാന്തരത്തിൽ, മഹാദേവീ, ഞാൻ അവിടെ എത്തി. ദേവീ, എന്നെ അറിയാൻ/പരീക്ഷിക്കാൻ ഉള്ള ജിജ്ഞാസയിൽ അവർ കോപിച്ചു; തുടർന്ന്, ദേവേശീ, അവർ എന്നെ ശപിച്ച് എന്റെ ലിംഗം പതിപ്പിച്ചു വീഴ്ത്തിച്ചു.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Mūlacaṇḍīśa (etiology via curse)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva arrives at the sages’ forest hermitage; the sages, intent on testing him, flare into anger; a curse is pronounced; the liṅga is cast down—an intense moral drama in a sacred grove.
FAQs
Spiritual pride and suspicion can lead to adharma (cursing, hostility), while the divine still turns such episodes into sacred instruction through tīrtha-history.
The Devadāruvana-linked locus within Prabhāsa Kṣetra where the liṅga-pātana episode is remembered as part of Mūlacaṇḍīśa’s origin.
None; the verse narrates the cause-and-effect leading to liṅga-pātana.