Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 24
ईश्वर उवाच । निशम्यैतदृषेर्वाक्यं दाशास्ते जातसंभ्रमाः । यथावृत्तं तु तत्सर्वं नाभागाय न्यवेदयन्
īśvara uvāca | niśamyaitadṛṣervākyaṃ dāśāste jātasaṃbhramāḥ | yathāvṛttaṃ tu tatsarvaṃ nābhāgāya nyavedayan
ഈശ്വരൻ അരുളിച്ചെയ്തു—ഋഷിവചനം കേട്ട് മത്സ്യത്തൊഴിലാളികൾ വ്യാകുലരായി, സംഭവിച്ചതെല്ലാം സംഭവിച്ചതുപോലെ നാഭാഗനോട് യഥാവിധി അറിയിച്ചു.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: (Implied) the Purāṇic audience within the Prabhāsa-māhātmya frame
Scene: On the Prabhāsa seashore, anxious fishermen cluster together, faces tense, gesturing as they recount a sage’s pronouncement to King Nābhāga’s messengers; wind and salt-spray suggest urgency.
FAQs
It transitions the story: dharmic speech moves ordinary people to action and to report rightly to authority/elders.
Prabhāsakṣetra remains the māhātmya setting; the narrative unfolds within its sacred domain.
None; it is narrative reporting—conveying events truthfully (yathāvṛttam) as a dharmic act.