Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 23
एवं ते कथितो देवि गोप्यादित्यसमुद्भवः । माहात्म्यं तस्य ते वच्मि पूजावन्दनजं क्रमात्
evaṃ te kathito devi gopyādityasamudbhavaḥ | māhātmyaṃ tasya te vacmi pūjāvandanajaṃ kramāt
हे देवी, अशा प्रकारे मी तुला गोप्यादित्याचा उद्भव सांगितला. आता क्रमाने त्याच्या पूजावंदनातून प्रकट होणारे माहात्म्य मी सांगतो.
Śiva (deduced: narration to Devī within Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya)
Tirtha: Gopyāditya (Prabhāsa/Mitravana)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A didactic scene: Skanda as narrator addressing Devī, with palm-leaf manuscript or gesture of instruction, while the sacred grove/shrine is hinted in the background—signaling a transition to ritual praise.
FAQs
The Purāṇa frames spiritual benefit as flowing from ordered devotion—worship (pūjā) and respectful salutations (vandana).
Prabhāsa-kṣetra through the specific manifestation titled Gopyāditya.
Pūjā (ritual worship) and vandana (salutation) are indicated as the devotional means whose fruits will be described.
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