Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 2
पूर्वं पीतो यदा देवि समुद्रः कुम्भजन्मना । तदा कोपेन सन्तप्तो वरुणः सरितां पतिः
pūrvaṃ pīto yadā devi samudraḥ kumbhajanmanā | tadā kopena santapto varuṇaḥ saritāṃ patiḥ
پہلے، اے دیوی، جب کُمبھ سے جنمے مُنی نے سمندر کو پی لیا، تب ندियों کا پتی ورُڻ—آب کا حاکم—غصّے سے بھڑک اٹھا۔
Śiva (context continues from īśvara uvāca)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A flashback: the ocean is drunk by the pot-born sage (Agastya), leaving Varuṇa, lord of waters, burning with anger at the loss of his domain.
FAQs
Cosmic events and divine emotions are used to frame why a deity establishes worship in a sacred kṣetra.
The narrative prepares the ground for Varuṇeśvara in Prabhāsakṣetra.
None directly; it introduces the backstory leading to Varuṇa’s later tapas and liṅga-pratiṣṭhā.