Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
तस्यास्यं चाभवेद्घोरं दंष्ट्रा दुर्दर्शनं महत् । हनुरेकः स्थितस्तस्य भूमावेको दिवं गतः
tasyāsyaṃ cābhavedghoraṃ daṃṣṭrā durdarśanaṃ mahat | hanurekaḥ sthitastasya bhūmāveko divaṃ gataḥ
اس کا منہ نہایت ہولناک تھا، بڑے اور خوف انگیز دانتوں کے ساتھ؛ اس کے دو جبڑوں میں سے ایک زمین پر ٹکا تھا اور دوسرا آسمان تک جا پہنچا تھا۔
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Purāṇic interlocutor(s)
Scene: Close focus on Mada’s dreadful mouth: massive fangs like white cliffs; one jaw planted on earth, the other arcing into the sky; tiny figures and sacrificial posts appear between the jaws, emphasizing scale and terror.
FAQs
Adharmic power becomes monstrous and all-consuming, symbolically spanning earth to heaven and threatening cosmic order.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, where the narrative magnifies the sacred setting through cosmic descriptions.
None; it continues the narrative description of the manifested being.