Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 32
चरन्वै गगनाद्येन पातितो धरणीतले । सौरिणा ह्येवमुक्तस्तु पिप्पलादो महामुनिः
caranvai gaganādyena pātito dharaṇītale | sauriṇā hyevamuktastu pippalādo mahāmuniḥ
While moving through the sky, he was cast down upon the earth by that very power. Thus addressed by Sauri (Śani), the great sage Pippalāda replied.
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Revā-khaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Revā-tīrtha (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Śani (Sauri) addresses Pippalāda after being cast down; the sage is poised to respond—two figures in a charged yet orderly tableau, with riverbank sanctity around them.
FAQs
Purāṇic dialogue emphasizes moral causality: when power meets righteousness, a reckoning occurs and truth is spoken.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it functions as narrative linkage.
None.
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