Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3
अथ तां पार्थिवस्तूर्णं शरेणानतपर्वणा । जघानाकर्णकृष्टेन मर्मस्थाने प्रहर्षितः
atha tāṃ pārthivastūrṇaṃ śareṇānataparvaṇā | jaghānākarṇakṛṣṭena marmasthāne praharṣitaḥ
Alors le roi la frappa promptement d’une flèche aux jointures inflexibles, bandée jusqu’à l’oreille; elle atteignit un point vital, et il le fit dans une vive exaltation.
Sūta
Type: kshetra
Scene: The king releases a fully drawn arrow to the ear; it strikes the doe at a vital spot—dramatic rupture of the earlier calm nursing scene.
FAQs
Acts done in heedless exhilaration can become the trigger for karmic reversal and later repentance—common in tīrtha-māhātmya narratives.
The verse continues the Nāgarakhaṇḍa forest setting that will be revealed as spiritually charged through ensuing events.
None; it narrates the king’s action, preparing for subsequent dharma/atonement instructions typical of Purāṇic tīrtha accounts.