Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 44
तत्र पश्यसि यन्नाशं स्वकुटुम्बसमुद्भवम् । हिताय तदवस्थायास्तद्भविष्यत्यसंशयम्
tatra paśyasi yannāśaṃ svakuṭumbasamudbhavam | hitāya tadavasthāyāstadbhaviṣyatyasaṃśayam
また、そこで汝が見る滅びは、汝自身の一族より生じたものなれど、知れ――疑いなく、それはその境遇のための益となるであろう。
Unspecified in snippet (continuation of the same narrative voice)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrim/kingly interlocutor (contextual; not explicit in verse)
Scene: A seer-like figure consoles a distressed listener, pointing beyond visible family-ruin to an unseen auspicious outcome; the background hints at a western seashore tīrtha with temple silhouettes and pilgrims.
FAQs
Events that look ruinous may still serve a dharmic good within the larger cosmic order.
Not specified in this verse; the tīrtha context lies outside the snippet.
None.
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