Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 42
मध्येऽथ दंडकारण्यं क्षुत्क्षामः संगवर्जितः । व्याघ्रेण घातितस्तत्र नरमांसप्रियेण सः
madhye'tha daṃḍakāraṇyaṃ kṣutkṣāmaḥ saṃgavarjitaḥ | vyāghreṇa ghātitastatra naramāṃsapriyeṇa saḥ
On the way, in the Daṇḍaka forest, weakened by hunger and bereft of companions, he was slain there by a tiger that delighted in human flesh.
Maheśvara (Śiva) (continuing narration)
Tirtha: Daṇḍakāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Listener: Viṣṇu
Scene: In dense forest, a starving lone man is attacked by a fierce tiger; dramatic chiaroscuro, motion and terror, emphasizing the suddenness of death in wilderness.
FAQs
Isolation, hunger, and violent death are portrayed as the grim fruit of a life unmoored from dharma and daily sacred discipline.
Daṇḍakāraṇya is the named locale; it is not praised here as a tīrtha but used as the setting for karmic consequence.
None; the verse narrates the circumstance of death.