Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 103
तस्मा दुत्पादयिष्यामि महाकृत्यामिति स्थितः । संवत्सरे तस्य गते ऊरुगात्राद्विनिःसृता
tasmā dutpādayiṣyāmi mahākṛtyāmiti sthitaḥ | saṃvatsare tasya gate ūrugātrādviniḥsṛtā
ਉਹ ਨਿਸਚੇ ਕਰ ਬੈਠਾ—“ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਮੈਂ ਮਹਾਨ ਕ੍ਰਿਤਿਆ ਉਤਪੰਨ ਕਰਾਂਗਾ।” ਜਦ ਉਸ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਵਰ੍ਹਾ ਬੀਤ ਗਿਆ, ਤਾਂ ਉਹ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਜੰਘ ਤੋਂ ਪ੍ਰਗਟ ਹੋਈ।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Scene: A stern sage, seated in austerity, inwardly resolves to generate a ‘mahā-kṛtyā’; time passes (a full year), and a mysterious emergence from the thigh is hinted—ominous yet wondrous.
FAQs
Long austerity can externalize one’s inner intent into powerful results; when intent is harmful, the result becomes a menace to dharma.
The passage belongs to Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya, though the immediate event describes a mythic rite performed in a sacred precinct linked to Śiva.
A year-long sādhana (saṃvatsara) culminating in the production of a Mahākṛtyā is described narratively, not prescribed as a dhārmic practice.