Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 53
रुक्मिणी भ्रातरं दृष्ट्वा मरणे कृतनिश्चयम् । उवाच कृष्णं वैदर्भी भ्रातरं ह्यानयस्व मे
rukmiṇī bhrātaraṃ dṛṣṭvā maraṇe kṛtaniścayam | uvāca kṛṣṇaṃ vaidarbhī bhrātaraṃ hyānayasva me
अपने भाई को मृत्यु का निश्चय किए देखकर विदर्भराजकुमारी रुक्मिणी ने कृष्ण से कहा—“मेरे भाई को यहाँ मेरे पास ले आइए।”
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Dvārakā-māhātmya)
Tirtha: Dvārakā
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇas (implied continuity)
Scene: Rukmiṇī, distressed yet composed, sees her brother determined to die and petitions Kṛṣṇa to bring him to her presence.
FAQs
Compassionate intervention and family-dharma are upheld even amid crisis; devotion expresses itself through protection and reconciliation.
Dvārakā, presented in the Dvārakā-māhātmya as a sacred center where Kṛṣṇa’s actions establish dharmic order.
None in this verse; it sets narrative context leading to later devotional prescriptions.