Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 10
युद्धं स प्रार्थयामास मया सार्द्धं सुभीषणम् । ततोऽभवन्महायुद्धं ब्रह्माण्डक्षयकारकम्
yuddhaṃ sa prārthayāmāsa mayā sārddhaṃ subhīṣaṇam | tato'bhavanmahāyuddhaṃ brahmāṇḍakṣayakārakam
Hắn đòi một trận chiến ghê rợn với ta. Rồi một đại chiến bùng lên, có sức tàn phá đến mức có thể làm tiêu vong cả cõi vũ trụ (Brahmāṇḍa).
Śiva
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: A Devī addressed as ‘varānane’/‘deveśi’ (goddess interlocutor within the narrative frame)
Scene: A titanic duel is invoked—two superhuman figures poised amid storming skies; weapons and mantras collide, suggesting a battle that could crack the ‘brahmāṇḍa’. The horizon glows with apocalyptic light over a sacred coastal plain.
FAQs
When adharma-driven power confronts the divine order, conflict becomes cosmic; the kṣetra remembers such events as sanctifying history.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the account leading to the manifestation called Tala-svāmin/Taptodaka-svāmin.
None; it sets the dramatic context for the tīrtha’s emergence.