Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14
अथ वैलक्ष्यमापन्ना निर्विण्णाः सर्व एव ते । तां वार्तां दानवेन्द्राय वृकायोचुश्च ते तदा
atha vailakṣyamāpannā nirviṇṇāḥ sarva eva te | tāṃ vārtāṃ dānavendrāya vṛkāyocuśca te tadā
ನಂತರ ಅವರು ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಲಜ್ಜೆಪಟ್ಟು ನಿರಾಶರಾದವರಾಗಿ, ಆ ಸುದ್ದಿಯನ್ನು ದಾನವರ ಅಧಿಪತಿ ವೃಕನಿಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸಿದರು।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa context; specific speaker not explicit in this snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Defeated men with lowered weapons walk away from the cave; in a darker hall, they stand before Vṛka, the dānava leader, narrating their failure; Vṛka listens with tense authority.
FAQs
Adharma ultimately meets frustration and defeat when it confronts divine-protected dharma.
The report concerns events occurring in the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra narrative within Tīrthamāhātmya.
No ritual instruction appears here; it narrates the aftermath of the failed attack.
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