Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 177
नैवेद्येन च केन त्वं केन होमेन तुष्यसि । केन कष्टेन वा देव केनार्घेण मम प्रभो
naivedyena ca kena tvaṃ kena homena tuṣyasi | kena kaṣṭena vā deva kenārgheṇa mama prabho
എൻ പ്രഭോ! ഏതു നൈവേദ്യത്താൽ നീ പ്രസന്നനാകുന്നു, ഏതു ഹോമത്താൽ തൃപ്തനാകുന്നു? ഹേ ദേവാ! ഏതു കഷ്ടതപസ്സാൽ, ഏതു അർഘ്യാർപ്പണത്താൽ, എന്റെ സ്വാമീ?
Umā/Śivā (Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Vastrāpatha (Prabhāsa-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Devī, hands folded, asks Śaṅkara in a sacred Prabhāsa setting about the offerings and rites that truly satisfy him; ritual vessels (arghya-pātra), fire-altar (homa-kuṇḍa), and naivedya trays are present as symbolic props.
FAQs
Devotion is both offering and effort—material gifts, sacred rites, and personal endurance are all to be oriented toward the Lord.
Not explicitly; the verse is part of the Vastrāpathakṣetra Māhātmya within the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa.
It references naivedya (food offering), homa (fire oblation), arghya (honor-offering), and kaṣṭa (austerity/effort) as possible means of worship.