Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 8
वज्रास्त्रं च ततो मुक्तं वज्रास्त्रेण विनाशितम् । यद्यदस्त्रं क्षिपत्येष विश्वामित्रः प्रकोपितः
vajrāstraṃ ca tato muktaṃ vajrāstreṇa vināśitam | yadyadastraṃ kṣipatyeṣa viśvāmitraḥ prakopitaḥ
次に金剛の武器（ヴァジュラーストラ）が放たれたが、同じ金剛の武器によって打ち消され滅ぼされた。怒れるヴィシュヴァーミトラ（Viśvāmitra）が投げ放ついかなる武器も、
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator in Tīrthamāhātmya context; specific speaker not explicit in this snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A battlefield of divine weapons: Viśvāmitra hurls a blazing Vajrāstra; Vasiṣṭha counters with a like-for-like, mantra-born force that dissolves it midair, leaving spirals of light and ash.
FAQs
Anger fuels endless escalation; dharma requires the capacity to halt retaliation rather than multiply it.
No site is named in this line; it is part of the chapter’s broader tīrtha-māhātmya narration.
None; the verse continues the battle account.