Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 2
ततः सरस्वतीतीरे यानि भूतानि नारद । ग्रहाश्चोपग्रहाश्चैव वेतालाः शाकिनी गणाः
tataḥ sarasvatītīre yāni bhūtāni nārada | grahāścopagrahāścaiva vetālāḥ śākinī gaṇāḥ
അപ്പോൾ, ഹേ നാരദാ, സരസ്വതീതീരത്ത് പലവിധ ഭूतങ്ങൾ—ഗ്രഹങ്ങളും ഉപഗ്രഹങ്ങളും, വേതാളന്മാരും ശാകിനീഗണങ്ങളും—സമവേതമായി।
Nārada
Tirtha: Sarasvatī-tīra
Type: ghat
Listener: Nārada (vocative in verse)
Scene: On the misty bank of Sarasvatī, shadowy hosts—grahas and upagrahas as astral-personified forces, vetālas, and śākinī-gaṇas—gather in the twilight as Skanda’s divine procession approaches, the river shining as a boundary between worlds.
FAQs
The Purāṇas portray the world as layered with visible and invisible beings; divine missions move through—and subdue—such forces in service of dharma.
The Sarasvatī riverbank is indicated as a significant sacred landscape within the journey narrative.
None explicitly; the verse catalogs classes of beings associated with the locale and the unfolding campaign.