Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 19
क्षुभिता गिरयः सर्वे विद्रुताश्च महार्णवाः । तरवो निधनं जग्मुर्नद्यो वाहांश्च तत्यजुः
kṣubhitā girayaḥ sarve vidrutāśca mahārṇavāḥ | taravo nidhanaṃ jagmurnadyo vāhāṃśca tatyajuḥ
Alle Berge erbebten; die großen Ozeane wogten auf und gerieten außer sich. Die Bäume gingen dem Untergang entgegen, und die Flüsse verließen ihre Strömung.
Narrator (exact speaker not present in snippet)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Female addressee (contextual)
Scene: A sweeping catastrophe tableau: mountains shudder, oceans surge, trees splinter, and rivers lose their courses—nature unmoored as if at dissolution.
FAQs
The Purāṇic vision links moral disorder to environmental and cosmic instability, underscoring the need for dharmic guardianship.
Prabhāsakṣetra, within whose sacred narrative frame such disturbances are ultimately resolved through divine intervention.
No ritual action is prescribed in this verse.