Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 89
सुभद्रोवाच । शस्त्राणां कारणान्मूढैर्हतोऽसौ मुनिपुंगवः प्र । यच्छन्नपि चान्यानि तदाकाराणि सुव्रत
subhadrovāca | śastrāṇāṃ kāraṇānmūḍhairhato'sau munipuṃgavaḥ pra | yacchannapi cānyāni tadākārāṇi suvrata
Subhadrā dit : « À cause des armes, ce taureau parmi les sages fut tué par des êtres égarés. Ô toi de vœu pur, bien qu’il les eût dissimulées, ils recherchèrent d’autres formes de ces mêmes armes. »
Subhadrā
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: (her son / the questioning ascetic figure)
Scene: Subhadrā, composed yet sorrowful, narrates the killing of a great sage by deluded weapon-bearers; faint silhouettes of weapons or their ‘other forms’ hover symbolically, suggesting obsession that persists despite concealment.
FAQs
Attachment to power (weapons) breeds delusion and violence; even sages can be targeted when worldly aims dominate.
The passage is situated within Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya, connecting the moral narrative to the sanctified geography of Prabhāsa.
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