Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
ततस्तस्य महादेवि सम्यक्छ्रद्धान्वि तस्य वै । तुतोष भगवान्रुद्रो ददौ यन्मनसीप्सितम्
tatastasya mahādevi samyakchraddhānvi tasya vai | tutoṣa bhagavānrudro dadau yanmanasīpsitam
त्यानंतर, हे महादेवि, त्याच्या खरी व दृढ श्रद्धेमुळे भगवान रुद्र संतुष्ट झाले आणि त्याच्या मनातील इच्छित वरदान त्याला दिले।
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prabhāseśvara/Āgneya context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Rudra, pleased by the devotee’s true faith, grants the heart’s desire—depictable as a theophany over the liṅga, with the devotee receiving a boon in serene awe.
FAQs
Śraddhā (steady faith) joined with disciplined practice invites divine satisfaction and the granting of rightful aims.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, as the setting where devotion and tapas culminate in Rudra’s boon.
No new rite is prescribed; it emphasizes śraddhā as the inner qualification that makes worship and tapas fruitful.