Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 65
ततस्तस्मिन्मुनिसुते हृतेऽत्याहितशंसिभिः । तैः समागत्य शिशुभिः कथितं तत्पितुः पुरः
tatastasminmunisute hṛte'tyāhitaśaṃsibhiḥ | taiḥ samāgatya śiśubhiḥ kathitaṃ tatpituḥ puraḥ
Als daraufhin der Sohn des Weisen fortgerissen wurde — ein erschreckendes Unheil — kamen jene Knaben zusammen und berichteten es vor seinem Vater.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśī Khaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Acchoda-saras (contextual)
Type: kund
Scene: A group of frightened boys, wet and disheveled, rush from the lakeside to an āśrama courtyard; they gesture anxiously before a seated sage-father, conveying the seizure and disappearance.
FAQs
Truthful reporting and communal responsibility in times of crisis are portrayed as ethical duties aligned with dharma.
The episode continues the Acchoda lake setting, within the broader Kāśī Khaṇḍa sacred-geography discourse.
None; it narrates the communication of an event to the sage-father.