Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
ततस्तस्य महादेवि सम्यक्छ्रद्धान्वि तस्य वै । तुतोष भगवान्रुद्रो ददौ यन्मनसीप्सितम्
tatastasya mahādevi samyakchraddhānvi tasya vai | tutoṣa bhagavānrudro dadau yanmanasīpsitam
پھر اے مہادیوی! اُس کی سچی اور پختہ شردھا سے خوش ہو کر بھگوان رُدر نے اُسے وہی عطا کیا جو وہ دل میں چاہتا تھا۔
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prabhāseśvara/Āgneya context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Rudra, pleased by the devotee’s true faith, grants the heart’s desire—depictable as a theophany over the liṅga, with the devotee receiving a boon in serene awe.
FAQs
Śraddhā (steady faith) joined with disciplined practice invites divine satisfaction and the granting of rightful aims.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, as the setting where devotion and tapas culminate in Rudra’s boon.
No new rite is prescribed; it emphasizes śraddhā as the inner qualification that makes worship and tapas fruitful.