Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 26
पालयामास संहृष्टो ह्यजापालस्ततोऽभवत् । तस्मिन्काले बभूवाथ रावणो राक्षसेश्वरः
pālayāmāsa saṃhṛṣṭo hyajāpālastato'bhavat | tasminkāle babhūvātha rāvaṇo rākṣaseśvaraḥ
तो आनंदित होऊन राज्याचे पालन करू लागला; म्हणून तो ‘अजापाल’ असा रक्षक म्हणून प्रसिद्ध झाला. त्याच काळात राक्षसांचा अधिपती रावणही उदयास आला.
Deductive (Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya narration; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa continuing the Purāṇic account)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: Ajāpāla enthroned as a joyful protector-king, with symbols of orderly rule; in the background, a shadowed figure of Rāvaṇa’s emergence hints at a looming epoch of upheaval.
FAQs
It frames worldly sovereignty as time-bound and shifting—rulership rises and falls, while dharma remains the measure of a protector.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra (the sacred Prabhāsa region), within the Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa’s Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya.
None in this verse; it is narrative context establishing historical actors within the Māhātmya.