Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 56
अथासौ विस्मयाद्राजन्पंचत्वं समुपस्थितः । ततो जातिस्मरो जातो विदर्भाधिपतेर्गृहे
athāsau vismayādrājanpaṃcatvaṃ samupasthitaḥ | tato jātismaro jāto vidarbhādhipatergṛhe
Then, O King, through astonishment he met his end, returning to the state of the five elements. After that he was born in the house of the ruler of Vidarbha, endowed with memory of his former birth.
Pulastya
Tirtha: Arbuda-tīrtha (implied locus of death/merit)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rājā
Scene: The narrator describes the man’s sudden death born of astonishment; then a luminous transition to a royal palace in Vidarbha where a newborn/young prince bears the rare mark of jātismara—eyes reflecting remembered suffering and wonder.
FAQs
Actions and inner states carry across lives; the Purāṇic narrative uses rebirth to show how dharma ripens beyond a single lifetime.
The story’s merit-thread remains tied to the Arbuda sacred region, even as the rebirth occurs in Vidarbha.
None directly; the verse establishes karmic continuity and sets up the later vrata and dāna pattern.