Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 7
तस्या माहात्म्यमखिलं कथयामि तवाधुना । पुरा सोमेन त्यक्ताभिर्भार्याभिस्तु वरानने
tasyā māhātmyamakhilaṃ kathayāmi tavādhunā | purā somena tyaktābhirbhāryābhistu varānane
اب میں تمہیں اس کی پوری عظمت بیان کرتا ہوں۔ اے خوش رُو! قدیم زمانے میں ایک وقت ایسا آیا کہ سوم (چندر) کو اس کی بیویوں نے چھوڑ دیا تھا—
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Varānanā / fair-faced interlocutor (female addressee in the narrative frame)
Scene: A narrator begins recounting the full greatness of Prabhāsa, introducing an ancient episode: Soma’s wives, abandoned, turn toward the sacred kṣetra as their refuge.
FAQs
Sacred-site teachings often unfold through purāṇic narrative, showing how divine grace restores order when harmony is broken.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, as the setting for the māhātmya of Icchāśakti that Śiva begins to narrate.
None in this verse; it introduces a mythic account that supports the site’s māhātmya.