Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 56
द्विगुणं द्विगुणीकृत्य प्रेषयामास दानवः । तानप्यष्टगुणैः कृष्णश्छादयामास सायकैः
dviguṇaṃ dviguṇīkṛtya preṣayāmāsa dānavaḥ | tānapyaṣṭaguṇaiḥ kṛṣṇaśchādayāmāsa sāyakaiḥ
দানৱে দ্বিগুণ কৰি পুনৰ দ্বিগুণকৈ শৰ প্ৰেৰণ কৰিলে; কিন্তু কৃষ্ণে অষ্টগুণ সংখ্যক শৰৰে সেয়াও ঢাকি পেলালে।
Narrator
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śrotṛ community (implied)
Scene: The dānava’s arrows multiply in successive waves; Kṛṣṇa answers with an overwhelming eightfold canopy of arrows, darkening the sky like a woven net, yet with Kṛṣṇa’s face tranquil.
FAQs
Escalation of violence by adharma is ultimately outmatched; divine order prevails without strain.
No specific tīrtha is named; the scene belongs to the Revā Khaṇḍa’s sacred Narmadā milieu.
None.
Read Skanda Purana in the Vedapath app
Scan the QR code to open this directly in the app, with audio, word-by-word meanings, and more.