Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7
तस्मिन्नष्टे कपालं तत्क्षिप्तं मंडपबाह्यतः । अथान्यत्तत्र संजातं तद्रूपं च वरानने
tasminnaṣṭe kapālaṃ tatkṣiptaṃ maṃḍapabāhyataḥ | athānyattatra saṃjātaṃ tadrūpaṃ ca varānane
तो अदृश्य होताच फेकलेले ते कपाल मंडपाबाहेर पडले. मग, हे वरानने, तिथेच त्याच रूपाचे दुसरे कपाल पुन्हा प्रकट झाले।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Varānanā (addressed as ‘lovely-faced one’, Devī/Umā)
Scene: Outside the pavilion, the thrown skull lies on the ground; beside it, a second identical skull manifests, startling the onlookers who peer from the maṇḍapa threshold.
FAQs
Divine power is not constrained by material continuity; the sacred space becomes a theater of revelation.
Prabhāsakṣetra, where miraculous signs arise around ritual activity, confirming the site’s sanctity.
The verse situates the event around the yajña pavilion (maṇḍapa); it implies ritual context rather than stating a specific rule.