Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14
अथापश्यत्स नागेन्द्रतनयं भूरिवर्च्चसम् । रुद्रमालमिति ख्यातं जनन्या सह संगतम्
athāpaśyatsa nāgendratanayaṃ bhūrivarccasam | rudramālamiti khyātaṃ jananyā saha saṃgatam
അപ്പോൾ അവൻ നാഗേന്ദ്രന്റെ പുത്രനെ, മഹത്തായ തേജസ്സാൽ ദീപ്തനായ—‘രുദ്രമാല’ എന്നു പ്രസിദ്ധനായ—ജനനിയോടുകൂടെ സംഗതനായതായി കണ്ടു।
Purāṇic narrator (contextual narrator in Tīrthamāhātmya; exact speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Type: tīrtha (jalāśraya-tīra)
Scene: On a luminous riverbank, the radiant nāga-prince ‘Rudramāla’ appears with his mother, both semi-divine, emerging from watery depths; the moment is a sudden darśana of hidden guardians of the tīrtha.
FAQs
The tīrtha landscape is inhabited by powerful non-human beings too; dharma requires discernment and reverence, not rash judgment.
The episode unfolds in the Nāgatīrtha setting of the chapter.
None in this verse; it introduces the nāga figure Rudramāla and his mother.