Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 49
एतस्मिन्न न्तरे प्राप्तो नभोमध्यं दिवाकरः । वृषस्थो येन दह्यामि ह्युपरिष्टाच्छुभानना
etasminna ntare prāpto nabhomadhyaṃ divākaraḥ | vṛṣastho yena dahyāmi hyupariṣṭācchubhānanā
ഇതിനിടയിൽ ദിവാകരനായ സൂര്യൻ ആകാശത്തിന്റെ മദ്ധ്യത്തിൽ എത്തി; വൃഷഭരാശിയിൽ നിലകൊള്ളുന്ന അവൻ തന്നെയാണ് മുകളിൽ നിന്ന് എന്നെ ദഹിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്, ഹേ ശുഭാനനേ।
Unspecified narrator within Nāgara-khaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya (addressing a listener as śubhānanā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Addressed as 'śubhānanā' (fair-faced one)
Scene: The sun at zenith blazing down; a traveler looks upward shielding eyes, skin sunlit; the horizon bleaches; the address to a 'fair-faced one' suggests a companion or listener nearby.
FAQs
Extreme heat symbolizes the intensification of suffering that precedes relief—often through a divinely protected water-source in tīrtha narratives.
Not identified here; the verse heightens the setting (midday sun) before the tīrtha’s significance is fully disclosed.
None; it provides astronomical and experiential context (the sun overhead, scorching heat).