Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 5
सूत उवाच । आनर्तः सुहयो नाम पुरासीत्पृथिवीपतिः । सर्वारिभिर्हतो युद्धे पलायनपरायणः । उच्छिष्टो म्लेच्छसंस्पृष्ट एकाकी बहुभिर्वृतः
sūta uvāca | ānartaḥ suhayo nāma purāsītpṛthivīpatiḥ | sarvāribhirhato yuddhe palāyanaparāyaṇaḥ | ucchiṣṭo mlecchasaṃspṛṣṭa ekākī bahubhirvṛtaḥ
スータは語った。「昔、スハヤと呼ばれるアーナルタという地上の王がいた。戦において諸敵にことごとく敗れ、逃走に心を傾けた彼は、ムレッチャとの接触により穢れ—汚染され—孤独でありながら、多くの災いに取り囲まれたかのようであった。」
Sūta
Tirtha: Ānarteśvara-sānnidhya (Ānarta kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (Naimiṣāraṇya audience implied)
Scene: A defeated king in travel-worn garments, looking back in fear, stands amid a shadowy forest edge; hostile figures and inner ‘troubles’ encircle him, while in the distance a Śiva-liṅga shrine (Ānarteśvara) glows faintly, promising refuge.
FAQs
Even those fallen into defeat and impurity can be restored through the Purāṇic path—turning toward sacred places and dharmic remedies.
The verse sets up the kathā that culminates at the deva-made taḍāga and the Ānarteśvara liṅga described in Adhyāya 65.
None directly; it introduces the king’s compromised condition that the tīrtha narrative will address through purification and worship.