Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 11
ततः कोपान्महायुद्धे मम देहाद्वरानने । ज्वाला तत्र समुत्पन्ना तन्मध्ये स तलोऽभवत्
tataḥ kopānmahāyuddhe mama dehādvarānane | jvālā tatra samutpannā tanmadhye sa talo'bhavat
پھر اس عظیم جنگ میں، اے خوش رُو! میرے بدن سے غضب کے سبب ایک شعلہ اٹھا؛ اور اسی آگ کے بیچ تلا وجود میں آیا۔
Śiva
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (‘varānane’, ‘deveśi’)
Scene: From the narrator’s body erupts a towering flame; within the blaze a new figure—Tala—condenses, as if forged from living fire. The battlefield is lit like dawn at midnight.
FAQs
Divine energy (śakti) manifests as protective forms and sacred sites; even fierce cosmic moments become sources of tīrtha sanctity.
The origin of Tala (Tala-svāmin) associated with Prabhāsa-kṣetra; also linked later with the name Taptodaka-svāmin.
None explicitly; the verse explains the ontological origin of the deity/tīrtha rather than prescribing a rite.