Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 42
एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु वसिष्ठस्याश्रमे द्विजाः । दुर्निमित्तानि जातानि प्रभूतानि महांति च
etasminneva kāle tu vasiṣṭhasyāśrame dvijāḥ | durnimittāni jātāni prabhūtāni mahāṃti ca
അന്നേ സമയത്ത്, ഹേ ദ്വിജന്മാരേ, വസിഷ്ഠന്റെ ആശ്രമത്തിൽ അനേകവും അത്യന്തം മഹത്തുമായ ദുർനിമിത്തങ്ങൾ ഉദിച്ചു.
Narrator (addressing dvijāḥ; Purāṇic narrator not explicit)
Tirtha: Vasiṣṭha-āśrama (as narrative locus)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijāḥ (twice-born audience)
Scene: A tranquil forest hermitage of Vasiṣṭha suddenly feels charged: birds scatter, wind turns harsh, sacrificial fires flicker; brahmins look upward as ominous signs begin.
FAQs
When adharma approaches a holy place, the cosmos itself is portrayed as giving warning through omens.
The immediate sacred setting is Vasiṣṭha’s āśrama; the verse itself does not name a specific tīrtha beyond the hermitage context.
None; it reports the arising of ominous signs.