Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
दैत्यानामधिपो देवि विष्णुना प्रभविष्णुना । कृत्वा वर्षशतं युद्धं तलस्वामी ततोऽभवत्
daityānāmadhipo devi viṣṇunā prabhaviṣṇunā | kṛtvā varṣaśataṃ yuddhaṃ talasvāmī tato'bhavat
हे देवी! समर्थ, प्रभु विष्णूसोबत शंभर वर्षे युद्ध करून दैत्यांचा अधिपती तेव्हा ‘तलस्वामी’ म्हणून प्रसिद्ध झाला.
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Taptodaka-svāmin tīrtha (Talu/Talasvāmi episode)
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A mythic tableau: the daitya-king wages a hundred-year war against the all-powerful Viṣṇu; the asura becomes known as Talasvāmi, foreshadowing his defeat and the sanctification of the hot-water tīrtha.
FAQs
Pilgrimage sites are tied to cosmic history: the tīrtha’s sanctity is grounded in divine conflict and transformation across vast time.
The narrative supports the māhātmya of Talasvāmi/Taptodakasvāmi at Taptodaka in Prabhāsa-kṣetra.
None in this verse; it provides mythic background for the deity/site.