Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
तेन यत्कमला शप्ता ब्राह्मणेन महात्मना । सा कथं गज वक्त्राऽथ पुनर्जाता शुभानना
tena yatkamalā śaptā brāhmaṇena mahātmanā | sā kathaṃ gaja vaktrā'tha punarjātā śubhānanā
সেই মহাত্মা ব্ৰাহ্মণৰ শাপত কমলা শপিত হৈছিল; তেন্তে তাই কেনেকৈ গজ-মুখী হ’ল, আৰু পাছত কেনেকৈ পুনৰ শুভ-মুখে জন্ম ল’লে?
Ṛṣis (sages)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A questioning scene: the listener asks how Kamalā, cursed by a great brāhmaṇa, became elephant-faced and later regained auspicious beauty—framed as a suspenseful inquiry in a sacred narrative setting.
FAQs
It points to the moral causality of śāpa (curse) and the possibility of restoration through divine arrangement and austerity.
Not specified in this verse; the tīrtha context appears in the subsequent narration.
None directly; it sets up the explanation that follows.