Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 18
तां पश्यमानो विजने स रेमे परमद्युतिः । क्षामकण्ठश्च ब्रह्मर्षिस्तपोबलसमन्वितः
tāṃ paśyamāno vijane sa reme paramadyutiḥ | kṣāmakaṇṭhaśca brahmarṣistapobalasamanvitaḥ
निर्जन स्थानी तिला पाहत तो परम तेजस्वी आनंदित झाला; क्षीणकंठ ब्रह्मर्षीही तपोबलाने युक्त होऊन तेथे उपस्थित होता।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating to the sages (contextual attribution)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Bhārgava presence)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (contextual)
Scene: A radiant, emaciated-throated Brahmarṣi endowed with tapas beholds the maiden in solitude and feels delight; the scene is charged—tejas and temptation in a sacred grove.
FAQs
Outer frailty can conceal immense spiritual potency; tapas is portrayed as a real force shaping events.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, whose māhātmya foregrounds the presence of powerful sages and karmic consequences.
None; the verse highlights the nature of a tapasvī rather than a specific rite.