Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 36
साङ्गोपाङ्गास्तु ते वेदाः शास्त्राणि विविधानि च । प्रतिभास्यन्ति ते विप्र मदीयोऽस्तु वरस्त्वयम्
sāṅgopāṅgāstu te vedāḥ śāstrāṇi vividhāni ca | pratibhāsyanti te vipra madīyo'stu varastvayam
“اے وِپر! وید اپنے سَانگ و اُپانگ سمیت اور شاستروں کی گوناگوں شاخیں تیرے فہم میں روشن ہوں گی—یہی میرا عطا کردہ بر ہے۔”
Dvijottama (boon-giver)
Tirtha: Revā/Narmadā (contextual)
Type: river
Listener: null
Scene: The boon is verbalized as a shower of scriptural light—Vedas and śāstras symbolically appearing as radiant manuscripts or sound-waves entering the student’s mind.
FAQs
True learning is a grace-born illumination—knowledge becomes ‘living’ when dharma ripens into insight (pratibhā).
Implicitly the Revā (Narmadā) sacred sphere where such merits and blessings are narrated, though not named in this verse.
No direct prescription; it describes the fruit (phala) of prior disciplined rites—attainment of Vedic and śāstric brilliance.