Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 35
हित्वा मां ते गताः सर्वे गत्वा राज्ञे न्यवेदयन् । न किञ्चित्तत्र संप्राप्तं हतोऽस्माभिश्च तत्क्षणात्
hitvā māṃ te gatāḥ sarve gatvā rājñe nyavedayan | na kiñcittatra saṃprāptaṃ hato'smābhiśca tatkṣaṇāt
Leaving me behind, they all went and reported to the king: ‘Nothing at all was obtained there; he was slain by us at that very moment.’
Unspecified narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya (contextual narrator)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied intimate addressee (priye) within the narrative frame
Scene: A group of men leaving a dark crime scene; cut to a courtly hall where they stand before a king, hands folded or gesturing, delivering a blunt report; the contrast between torchlit night and lamplit court.
FAQs
Worldly justice proceeds by report and enforcement, but the deeper Purāṇic aim is to lead the listener toward repentance and sacred remedy.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra; the story’s moral tension is later resolved through the tīrtha’s sanctifying power.
None explicitly; it is a narrative transition toward later vrata/tīrtha teaching.
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