Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 22
ततोत्यंतं स चीत्कृत्य देव्याकृत्तकरःकरी । अकिंचित्करतां प्राप्य माहिषं वपुराददे
tatotyaṃtaṃ sa cītkṛtya devyākṛttakaraḥkarī | akiṃcitkaratāṃ prāpya māhiṣaṃ vapurādade
પછી દેવીએ સૂંઢ કાપી નાખતાં તે હાથી અતિશય પીડાથી ચીસ પાડી ઊઠ્યો; નિઃસહાય બની હાથીરૂપ ત્યજી મહિષ (ભેંસ)નું શરીર ધારણ કર્યું।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa context, typically Skanda to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The wounded elephant screams; its severed trunk visible; the body ripples and transforms into a massive buffalo, eyes blazing with renewed malice despite helplessness.
FAQs
Ego-driven power shifts forms, but helplessness follows when dharma is opposed; the Goddess exposes and overcomes such deception.
Kāśī is the implied sacred setting whose sanctity is defended by the Divine Mother.
None; the verse focuses on the demon’s transformation and defeat sequence.