Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15
गीतवाद्यादिकं नृत्यं यस्तत्र कुरुते नरः । तस्यान्वये न दौर्भाग्यं भूयात्तस्याः प्रसादतः
gītavādyādikaṃ nṛtyaṃ yastatra kurute naraḥ | tasyānvaye na daurbhāgyaṃ bhūyāttasyāḥ prasādataḥ
അവിടെ ഗീതവും വാദ്യങ്ങളും സഹിതം നൃത്തം ചെയ്യുന്ന മനുഷ്യന്, ആ ദേവിയുടെ പ്രസാദത്താൽ അവന്റെ വംശത്തിൽ ദൗർഭാഗ്യം ഉദിക്കുകയില്ല।
Īśvara (Śiva) (deduced from immediate chapter-context; explicit speaker appears at Adhyāya 60 opening)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Devi-sthāna)
Type: kshetra
Scene: In a temple courtyard at Prabhāsa, devotees perform dance with singers and instrumentalists before the Devi; the goddess’s grace is shown as a protective canopy over the performer’s family line.
FAQs
Devotional celebration (song, music, and dance) at a sacred tīrtha becomes a cause of divine grace that protects one’s family line from misfortune.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, praised in the Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya of the Skanda Purāṇa.
Performing devotional dance with singing and instruments at the holy place as an offering of bhakti.