Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15
गीतवाद्यादिकं नृत्यं यस्तत्र कुरुते नरः । तस्यान्वये न दौर्भाग्यं भूयात्तस्याः प्रसादतः
gītavādyādikaṃ nṛtyaṃ yastatra kurute naraḥ | tasyānvaye na daurbhāgyaṃ bhūyāttasyāḥ prasādataḥ
जो मनुष्य तेथे गीत-वाद्यांसह नृत्य करतो, त्या देवीच्या प्रसादाने त्याच्या वंशात दुर्दैव उत्पन्न होत नाही।
Īśvara (Śiva) (deduced from immediate chapter-context; explicit speaker appears at Adhyāya 60 opening)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Devi-sthāna)
Type: kshetra
Scene: In a temple courtyard at Prabhāsa, devotees perform dance with singers and instrumentalists before the Devi; the goddess’s grace is shown as a protective canopy over the performer’s family line.
FAQs
Devotional celebration (song, music, and dance) at a sacred tīrtha becomes a cause of divine grace that protects one’s family line from misfortune.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, praised in the Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya of the Skanda Purāṇa.
Performing devotional dance with singing and instruments at the holy place as an offering of bhakti.