Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 41
तथा तामरसा नाम दशमी रक्तकोटिका । एतासां च महादेवि ख्यातो भर्त्ता प्रभाकरः
tathā tāmarasā nāma daśamī raktakoṭikā | etāsāṃ ca mahādevi khyāto bharttā prabhākaraḥ
तसेच दहावी ‘तामरसा’ नावाची ‘रक्तकोटिका’ म्हणून प्रसिद्ध होती. हे महादेवी, त्या सर्वांचा ख्यातनाम भर्ता प्रभाकर होता.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating (contextual deduction within Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa māhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (addressed as ‘mahādevi’)
Scene: A sacred assembly where the goddess is addressed; a set of ten feminine figures (daśamī) is recalled, with the tenth named Tāmarasā/Raktakoṭikā; sages proclaim Prabhākara as the famed consort, suggesting a cosmic household of light.
FAQs
Purāṇic māhātmyas transmit sanctity through remembered relationships, making sacred place, person, and lineage mutually illuminating.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, as the broader frame in which these lineages are recounted.
No explicit ritual action is described in this verse.