मर्दयंत्यास्तव तदा संजातं च महन्मलम् । तत्र जज्ञे गजेंद्रास्यश्चतुर्बाहुर्मनोहरः
mardayaṃtyāstava tadā saṃjātaṃ ca mahanmalam | tatra jajñe gajeṃdrāsyaścaturbāhurmanoharaḥ
جب تم نے اسے ملنا شروع کیا تو اسی وقت ناپاکی کا ایک بڑا ڈھیر پیدا ہوا؛ اور اسی سے ہاتھیوں کے سردار جیسے چہرے والا، چار بازوؤں والا، دلکش وجود پیدا ہوا۔
Narrative voice (Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya; speaker not explicit in this verse)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Somanātha)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied audience within Prabhāsa-māhātmya
Scene: As the Goddess rubs/presses her form, a great dark mass of impurity gathers; from it emerges a beautiful four-armed, elephant-faced being—newborn yet majestic.
Even what appears impure can be transformed by divine agency into a purposeful force within sacred history.
Prabhāsakṣetra, the sacred region of Somanātha (Śiva) in the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa.
No explicit ritual is prescribed in this verse; it introduces a mythic origin within the site’s māhātmya.