Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 13
तस्यैवं स्तुवतो देवि तुष्टोऽहं भावितात्मनः । पूर्णे वर्षसहस्रांते ध्रुवस्याह महात्मनः
tasyaivaṃ stuvato devi tuṣṭo'haṃ bhāvitātmanaḥ | pūrṇe varṣasahasrāṃte dhruvasyāha mahātmanaḥ
اے دیوی! جب اس پاکیزہ باطن نے یوں میری ستوتی کی تو میں خوش ہوا۔ پورے ایک ہزار برس گزرنے پر میں نے مہاتما دھروو سے کلام کیا۔
Īśvara (Śiva), addressing Devī (Pārvatī)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva narrates to Devī: after a thousand-year cycle of Dhruva’s praise, the deity becomes pleased and prepares to speak; the scene alternates between cosmic narration and the ascetic’s steadfast worship.
FAQs
Steady praise and inner purification ripen into divine grace; Śiva responds when devotion becomes complete.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra (Prabhāsakṣetra), presented as a place where prolonged devotion bears direct fruit.
No specific rite is prescribed here; the emphasis is on sustained stuti (praise) and tapas over time.