Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 18
ईश्वर उवाच । इत्युक्त्वा तु तदा देवी तत्रैवांतर्हिताऽभवत् । प्रभासक्षेत्रमध्यस्थः स राजातुलविक्रमः
īśvara uvāca | ityuktvā tu tadā devī tatraivāṃtarhitā'bhavat | prabhāsakṣetramadhyasthaḥ sa rājātulavikramaḥ
ഈശ്വരൻ അരുളിച്ചെയ്തു—ഇങ്ങനെ പറഞ്ഞിട്ട് ദേവി അവിടെയേ അന്തർഹിതയായി. അപ്പോൾ അതുലവിക്രമനായ ആ രാജാവ് പ്രഭാസക്ഷേത്രത്തിന്റെ മദ്ധ്യത്തിൽ തന്നെ നിലകൊണ്ടു.
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsakṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Purāṇic interlocutor(s) in the larger frame; immediate narrative focus on the king
Scene: The Goddess, after speaking, dissolves into light and vanishes; the king stands in awe at the center of Prabhāsa, the landscape holding a charged stillness.
FAQs
Divine instruction is followed by divine withdrawal; the seeker remains anchored in the tīrtha, where the teaching is to be lived.
Prabhāsakṣetra, explicitly named as the central setting of the event.
No new ritual is prescribed here; it transitions from Devī’s instruction to the narrative continuation under Śiva’s narration.