Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 51
तथा सहस्रशो रौद्राश्चतुर्बाहव एव च । स्त्रीणां गर्भेष्वजायंत राक्षसा गुह्यकास्तथा
tathā sahasraśo raudrāścaturbāhava eva ca | strīṇāṃ garbheṣvajāyaṃta rākṣasā guhyakāstathā
اسی طرح ہزاروں کی تعداد میں درندہ صفت ہستیاں—کچھ تو چار بازوؤں والی—عورتوں کے رحم سے پیدا ہوئیں؛ راکشس اور گُہیک بھی—یہ بھی ایک نہایت ہولناک شگون تھا۔
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating (contextual deduction within Māhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A symbolic montage: many women in distress; shadowy rākṣasa and guhyaka infants (some four-armed) appear as portent-figures rather than literal gore; sages/elders react with alarm under a darkened sky.
FAQs
When collective dharma declines, the Purāṇas describe society itself reflecting that disorder through fearful portents; the remedy is renewed sacred discipline and turning to tīrthas.
Prabhāsakṣetra is the Māhātmya’s focal tīrtha, toward which the narrative is driving.
No explicit ritual is stated here; it intensifies the sense of urgency that culminates in undertaking tīrthayātrā.