Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 77
परं युध्यसि दैत्येंद्रैर्दानवेंद्रैर्न पार्षदैः । इत्युक्ता वीरभद्रेण भुशुंडीकलिताकरे
paraṃ yudhyasi daityeṃdrairdānaveṃdrairna pārṣadaiḥ | ityuktā vīrabhadreṇa bhuśuṃḍīkalitākare
“তুমি মূলত দৈত্যেন্দ্ৰ আৰু দানৱেন্দ্ৰসকলৰ সৈতে যুদ্ধ কৰ; কেৱল পাৰ্ষদসকলৰ সৈতে নহয়!”—এইদৰে ক’লে বীৰভদ্ৰে, তেওঁৰ হাতে ভুশুণ্ডী অস্ত্ৰ ধৰা আছিল।
Vīrabhadra
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: Vīrabhadra, gripping a bhuśuṇḍī, rebukes the opponent: ‘You are fit to fight Daitya and Dānava lords, not mere attendants,’ his posture blazing with Rudra-like wrath.
FAQs
Status and strength are relativized: the Purāṇa highlights that divine attendants can equal or exceed the might of famed demon-kings, undermining pride in rank.
The verse sits within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī-oriented narration; no specific tīrtha is named in this line.
None.