Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 58
इन्द्र उवाच । यदि तुष्टासि मे देवि शाश्वते भक्तिवत्सले । अत्रैव स्थीयतां तावत्स्वर्गे यावदहं विभुः
indra uvāca | yadi tuṣṭāsi me devi śāśvate bhaktivatsale | atraiva sthīyatāṃ tāvatsvarge yāvadahaṃ vibhuḥ
اِندر نے کہا: “اے دیوی! اگر تُو مجھ سے راضی ہے—اے ازلی، بھکتی سے محبت کرنے والی—تو یہیں ٹھہری رہ، جب تک میں سُوَرگ میں اقتدار رکھتا ہوں۔”
Indra
Tirtha: Devī-sthāna at Arbuda (as framed in Arbudakhaṇḍa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Indra, hands folded, addresses the eternal Devī, requesting her to remain in that sacred locale as long as his sovereignty in heaven endures; devas stand in attendance.
FAQs
Even celestial power seeks the stabilizing presence of the Divine Mother; devotion culminates in the wish for enduring divine proximity.
The request supports the chapter’s theme of the Goddess’s abiding presence connected with Varaparvata/Arbuda.
No ritual prescription is mentioned in this verse.