Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 65
देवदेवस्य वचनात्प्रसन्ना साऽभवत्पुनः । नालं देवोऽपि संगृह्य दक्षिणाशां समाक्षिपत्
devadevasya vacanātprasannā sā'bhavatpunaḥ | nālaṃ devo'pi saṃgṛhya dakṣiṇāśāṃ samākṣipat
தேவர்களின் தேவனின் சொல்லால் அவள் மீண்டும் அருள்முகம் கொண்டாள். அப்போது தேவனும் நாலம் (தாமரைத் தண்டு) பிடித்து தென் திசை நோக்கி எறிந்தான்.
Narrator
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual locus for Mahānāla/Dhruveśvara)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A deity, responding to the ‘God of gods,’ grasps a lotus-stalk (nāla) and hurls it toward the southern quarter; the air is charged, as if the landscape itself awaits consecration.
FAQs
Divine grace is restored through right counsel and reconciliation; Śiva’s word harmonizes and pacifies.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, within whose māhātmya these divine acts are narrated as sacred history.
None explicitly; it narrates a divine act that may function etiologically within the kṣetra’s sacred geography.