Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 99
देव्युवाच । दक्षो यज्ञेन यजते पिता मे पूर्वजन्मनि । तेन त्वं दूषितः पूर्वमहं चातीव दुःखिता । विनाशयस्व तं यज्ञं वरमेनं वृणोम्यहम्
devyuvāca | dakṣo yajñena yajate pitā me pūrvajanmani | tena tvaṃ dūṣitaḥ pūrvamahaṃ cātīva duḥkhitā | vināśayasva taṃ yajñaṃ varamenaṃ vṛṇomyaham
देवी म्हणाली—पूर्वजन्मी माझा पिता दक्ष यज्ञ करीत आहे. त्यामुळे पूर्वी तुमचा अपमान झाला आणि मीही अत्यंत दुःखी झाले. म्हणून तो यज्ञ नष्ट करा—हाच वर मी निवडते।
Devī (Śivā/Satī-context)
Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra (didactic frame) / Dakṣa-yajña (exemplum)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Devī speaks directly to Śiva: she recalls Dakṣa as her father in a former birth, the dishonor to Śiva, and her grief; she chooses a boon—destroy the yajña. The scene is intimate, intense, and morally charged.
FAQs
A yajña without humility and reverence becomes hollow; divine power intervenes to correct sacrificial pride and adharma.
The broader setting is Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Vastrāpathakṣetra-māhātmya), though this verse focuses on the Dakṣa-yajña episode.
No positive prescription; it discusses the destruction of an adharmic sacrifice (yajña) as a chosen boon.