Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7
तस्या माहात्म्यमखिलं कथयामि तवाधुना । पुरा सोमेन त्यक्ताभिर्भार्याभिस्तु वरानने
tasyā māhātmyamakhilaṃ kathayāmi tavādhunā | purā somena tyaktābhirbhāryābhistu varānane
ഇപ്പോൾ ഞാൻ അവളുടെ സമഗ്ര മഹാത്മ്യം നിനക്കു പറയുന്നു. ഹേ സുന്ദരമുഖിയേ, പൂർവ്വകാലത്ത് സോമനെ അവന്റെ ഭാര്യമാർ ഉപേക്ഷിച്ചിരുന്നു—
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Varānanā / fair-faced interlocutor (female addressee in the narrative frame)
Scene: A narrator begins recounting the full greatness of Prabhāsa, introducing an ancient episode: Soma’s wives, abandoned, turn toward the sacred kṣetra as their refuge.
FAQs
Sacred-site teachings often unfold through purāṇic narrative, showing how divine grace restores order when harmony is broken.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, as the setting for the māhātmya of Icchāśakti that Śiva begins to narrate.
None in this verse; it introduces a mythic account that supports the site’s māhātmya.