Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 25
एतच्छ्रुत्वा तु वचनं घोरं मातृमुखोद्भवम् । केचित्प्रविष्टा रोमाणि तथान्ये गिरिसंस्थिताः
etacchrutvā tu vacanaṃ ghoraṃ mātṛmukhodbhavam | kecitpraviṣṭā romāṇi tathānye girisaṃsthitāḥ
Al oír aquellas terribles palabras surgidas de la boca de su madre, algunos se metieron entre los cabellos para ocultarse, y otros buscaron refugio en las montañas.
Narrator (contextual, unspecified in snippet)
Type: peak
Scene: Serpents scatter after hearing their mother’s dreadful threat—some slipping into strands of hair, others racing toward rocky mountains and crevices; the scene is kinetic and anxious.
FAQs
Fear-driven flight cannot resolve karmic consequence; Purāṇas often set up such crises to reveal divine refuge and eventual grace.
No single tīrtha is named in this verse; it remains within the Revā Khaṇḍa’s broader Narmadā-centered sacred setting.
None.
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