Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 65
याः स्त्रियस्तां च यक्ष्यंति तस्मिन्काले महोत्सवे । बलिभिः पुष्पधूपैश्च मा तासां त्वं गृहे विश
yāḥ striyastāṃ ca yakṣyaṃti tasminkāle mahotsave | balibhiḥ puṣpadhūpaiśca mā tāsāṃ tvaṃ gṛhe viśa
اس عظیم مہوتسو کے وقت جو عورتیں اس کی پوجا کریں گی—بَلی، پھول اور دھوپ چڑھا کر—تم ان کے گھروں میں داخل نہ ہونا۔
Skanda (deduced; injunction addressed to a potentially harmful entity)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (festival worship of kṣetra-devī)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (and by extension devotees)
Scene: Women in a courtyard shrine during mahotsava: they place bali offerings, scatter flowers, wave incense; a protective aura surrounds the home while shadowy bhūtas remain outside, unable to cross the threshold.
FAQs
Sincere ritual worship creates a protective spiritual boundary; devotion safeguards the household.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where festival offerings are portrayed as spiritually protective.
Worship during the mahotsava with bali-offerings, flowers, and incense (puṣpa, dhūpa).