Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 7
ततः कोपपरीतात्मा भगवान्वृषभध्वजः । गणान्संप्रेषयामास वधार्थं तस्य दुर्मतेः
tataḥ kopaparītātmā bhagavānvṛṣabhadhvajaḥ | gaṇānsaṃpreṣayāmāsa vadhārthaṃ tasya durmateḥ
បន្ទាប់មក ព្រះអម្ចាស់ វೃಷភធ្វជៈ (ព្រះសិវៈ) មានព្រះហឫទ័យព័ទ្ធដោយកំហឹងធម៌ បានបញ្ជូនពួកគណៈរបស់ព្រះអង្គ ទៅសម្លាប់មនុស្សចិត្តអាក្រក់នោះ។
Sūta (narration)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis/śrotṛ-gaṇa (implied)
Scene: Śiva (Vṛṣabhadhvaja) in fierce composure, issuing command; gaṇas assembling with weapons, ready to depart on a punitive mission.
FAQs
The Lord’s intervention restores dharma: divine power responds to adharma not as caprice, but as protection of cosmic and moral order.
Kailāsa is the implied sacred setting as Śiva’s domain; the verse emphasizes the Lord’s gaṇas and divine response rather than a bathing-place tīrtha.
None.