Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8
वह्निरुवाच । नमस्ते सर्वलोकेश उग्रमूर्ते नमोऽस्तु ते । रेतसा तव संदग्धः कुष्ठी जातो महेश्वर । कृपां कुरु महादेव मम रोगं विनाशय
vahniruvāca | namaste sarvalokeśa ugramūrte namo'stu te | retasā tava saṃdagdhaḥ kuṣṭhī jāto maheśvara | kṛpāṃ kuru mahādeva mama rogaṃ vināśaya
وہنی (اگنی) نے عرض کیا: “اے سب لوکوں کے مالک، آپ کو نمسکار؛ اے اُگرو مورتی، آپ کو نمون۔ اے مہیشور، آپ کی آتشیں توانائی سے جھلس کر میں کوڑھ میں مبتلا ہو گیا ہوں۔ اے مہادیو، کرپا کیجیے—میرا روگ مٹا دیجیے۔”
Vahni / Havyavāhana (Agni)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha
Type: kshetra
Scene: Agni, once blazing, now marked by disease, folds his hands and bows to Śiva’s fierce yet compassionate form; he confesses being scorched by Śiva’s potency and begs for the destruction of his leprosy.
FAQs
Humility and surrender transform suffering into a doorway to grace; even divine beings seek Śiva’s compassion for liberation from affliction.
The Revā region’s tīrtha milieu (later specified as the bathing-place where Agni is healed).
Not yet; the verse is a supplication that sets up the prescribed tīrtha-snāna (sacred bath) in the next verse.