Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9
उत्पथाश्च महानद्यो ग्रहा उन्मार्गसंस्थिताः । त्रैलोक्यं व्याकुलीभूतं यावत्प्राप्नोति संक्षयम्
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महानद्यः उत्पथाः प्रववुः, ग्रहाश्चोन्मार्गे व्यवस्थिताः। त्रैलोक्यं व्याकुलीभूतं संक्षयमिव प्राप्नोति स्म।
Śiva (deduced: continuing narration to Devī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis
Scene: Rivers surge out of their beds and carve new, chaotic channels; above, the grahas drift from their tracks, creating a sky of disarray; the three worlds appear shaken, with beings in panic.
FAQs
Dharma is harmony—when order is disturbed, even nature and the heavens reflect the imbalance.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra indirectly, through a māhātmya narrative where events linked to a sage affect the cosmos.
None; the verse is cosmological description, not a ritual directive.