Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 122
विप्रजन्मनि तस्यैव प्रभावाद्व्याससंगमः । ततः सर्वरुतज्ञो मां प्राहार्च्यः कीटभाषया
viprajanmani tasyaiva prabhāvādvyāsasaṃgamaḥ | tataḥ sarvarutajño māṃ prāhārcyaḥ kīṭabhāṣayā
Par la puissance de ce même mérite, acquis lors d’une naissance de brāhmaṇa, je fus mis en présence de Vyāsa. Alors le vénérable—connaisseur de tous les sons et de toutes les paroles—s’adressa à moi dans la langue des insectes.
Unspecified narrator
Scene: Vyāsa, venerable and radiant, speaks gently; the speech is shown as subtle sound-waves reaching an insect, indicating ‘knower of all utterances’ addressing in insect-language.
FAQs
Past merit (puṇya) is never lost; it can mature as saving contact with a great sage even in a degraded birth.
The Sarasvatī-bank milieu frames the event, reinforcing sacred geography as a stage for liberation.
None explicitly; the verse points to the fruit of prior dharma performed in a brāhmaṇa life.