Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 38
ततश्च सलिलात्तस्मादाकृष्य च कलेवरम् । मृतकस्य ततो दंतैर्भक्षयामास सत्वरम्
tataśca salilāttasmādākṛṣya ca kalevaram | mṛtakasya tato daṃtairbhakṣayāmāsa satvaram
তারপর সেই জল থেকে একটি মৃতদেহ টেনে তুলে, সে দ্রুত দাঁত দিয়ে তা ভক্ষণ করতে লাগল।
Agastya
Type: kund
Scene: At a lonely sacred waterbody, a being drags a corpse from the water and begins to devour it—an unsettling, liminal moment at the boundary of purity and impurity.
FAQs
Purāṇic māhātmya often uses shocking imagery to highlight karmic realities and the urgency of purification—sacred places reveal hidden truths and accelerate consequences.
The Devadeva-created taḍāga near Agastya’s āśrama; the event occurs directly in its waters.
None stated in this verse; it is a narrative action that will typically lead to an explanation of cause, sin-removal, or tīrtha-phala in subsequent verses.
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