Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 112
ततः पश्यामि चात्मानं बकत्वेन समाश्रितम्
tataḥ paśyāmi cātmānaṃ bakatvena samāśritam
Dann erblicke ich mich selbst—wie ich Zuflucht im Zustand eines Reihers genommen habe, das heißt: in einen Reiher verwandelt.
Unclear from snippet (first-person narrator within the episode; possibly the transformed being speaking)
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages (implied)
Scene: The narrator-person beholds himself transformed—human awareness within a heron body—standing near water or a sacred bank.
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives often portray inner and outer transformation as the visible fruit of prior actions and spoken destinies.
No single tīrtha is explicitly named in this verse; it continues the episode within the Tīrthamāhātmya framework.
None; it is a narrative statement of transformation.