Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 20
ईश्वर उवाच । वेदपादो यूपदंष्ट्रः क्रतुदंतःस्रुचीमुखः । अग्निजिह्वो दर्भरोमा ब्रह्मशीर्षा महातपाः
īśvara uvāca | vedapādo yūpadaṃṣṭraḥ kratudaṃtaḥsrucīmukhaḥ | agnijihvo darbharomā brahmaśīrṣā mahātapāḥ
اِیشور نے فرمایا: اُس کے قدم وید تھے؛ اُس کے دانتوں کے نوکدار دَمش یُوپ (یَجّیہ ستون) تھے؛ اُس کے دانت کرتو یعنی یَجّیہ کرم تھے؛ اُس کا مُنہ سُروچی (ہَوَن کا چمچ) تھا۔ اُس کی زبان اَگنی تھی؛ اُس کے رونگٹے دَربھ/کُشا گھاس تھے؛ اُس کا سر برہما تھا—وہ عظیم تپسیا والا تھا۔
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A colossal Varāha-form whose limbs are mapped to Vedic components: Vedas as feet, yūpa as tusks, kratu as teeth, sruc as mouth, Agni as tongue, kuśa as body-hair, Brahmā as head—standing at the edge of the cosmic ocean with sacrificial radiance.
FAQs
The divine is presented as identical with yajña—Vedic order is not merely a ritual but a cosmic body sustaining creation.
The verse praises Yajñavarāha as part of the Prabhāsa tīrtha-origin narrative leading to Karddamāla.
No explicit prescription, but it sacralizes Vedic yajña elements (yūpa, ladle, darbha, fire) as divine limbs.