Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 67
तथा सत्यवती नारी शफरीगर्भसंभवा । तथैव महिषीगर्भो जातश्च महिषासुरः
tathā satyavatī nārī śapharīgarbhasaṃbhavā | tathaiva mahiṣīgarbho jātaśca mahiṣāsuraḥ
De même, la femme Satyavatī naquit du sein d’un poisson śapharī ; et de la même manière, Mahiṣāsura naquit du ventre d’une bufflesse.
Wise elder (didactic exemplification; implied)
Scene: Split narrative: (1) A śapharī fish in a river with a radiant infant-girl (Satyavatī) emerging, attended by fisherfolk; (2) A dark, stormy scene of a buffalo giving birth to the asura Mahiṣāsura, with ominous aura—symbolic contrast of auspicious and inauspicious births.
FAQs
Origins can be wondrous and unconventional; the Purāṇas use such examples to dissolve doubt and highlight the vastness of karmic-divine causality.
None; the verse is genealogical/mythic rather than a tīrtha description.
None.