Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8
वह्निरुवाच । नमस्ते सर्वलोकेश उग्रमूर्ते नमोऽस्तु ते । रेतसा तव संदग्धः कुष्ठी जातो महेश्वर । कृपां कुरु महादेव मम रोगं विनाशय
vahniruvāca | namaste sarvalokeśa ugramūrte namo'stu te | retasā tava saṃdagdhaḥ kuṣṭhī jāto maheśvara | kṛpāṃ kuru mahādeva mama rogaṃ vināśaya
वह्नी म्हणाला— हे सर्वलोकेश, तुला नमस्कार; हे उग्रमूर्ती, तुला प्रणाम. हे महेश्वर, तुझ्या तेजाने दग्ध होऊन मी कुष्ठरोगी झालो आहे. हे महादेव, कृपा करून माझा रोग नष्ट कर.
Vahni / Havyavāhana (Agni)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha
Type: kshetra
Scene: Agni, once blazing, now marked by disease, folds his hands and bows to Śiva’s fierce yet compassionate form; he confesses being scorched by Śiva’s potency and begs for the destruction of his leprosy.
FAQs
Humility and surrender transform suffering into a doorway to grace; even divine beings seek Śiva’s compassion for liberation from affliction.
The Revā region’s tīrtha milieu (later specified as the bathing-place where Agni is healed).
Not yet; the verse is a supplication that sets up the prescribed tīrtha-snāna (sacred bath) in the next verse.