Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 88
एवं बहुविधा वाचः प्रलपन्मणिभद्रकः । नीत्वा तैः पार्थिवोद्दिष्टैः पुरुषैः परुषाक्षरम् । बहुधा प्रलपं श्चैव कृतः शाखावलंबनः
evaṃ bahuvidhā vācaḥ pralapanmaṇibhadrakaḥ | nītvā taiḥ pārthivoddiṣṭaiḥ puruṣaiḥ paruṣākṣaram | bahudhā pralapaṃ ścaiva kṛtaḥ śākhāvalaṃbanaḥ
Ainsi Maṇibhadra proféra des paroles de maintes sortes. Puis, conduit par des hommes mandatés par le roi au milieu d’invectives, et bien qu’il se lamentât de mille façons, on le fit pendre, suspendu à une branche.
Narrator
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A condemned man (Maṇibhadra) is led by royal attendants; the crowd’s faces show severity; he laments while being made to hang from a tree-branch at the edge of a settlement near the sacred precinct.
FAQs
The story turns from moral counsel to consequence: unrighteousness culminates in public disgrace and downfall, underscoring karmic accountability.
The episode is part of the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya narrative frame within Nāgara Khaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya.
None; it is narrative description of punishment and death within the upākhyāna.