Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 13
राक्षोघ्नानि च सूक्तानि जजपुश्चापरे तथा । केचिच्छरणमापन्ना विष्णो रुद्रस्य चापरे
rākṣoghnāni ca sūktāni jajapuścāpare tathā | keciccharaṇamāpannā viṣṇo rudrasya cāpare
ചിലർ രാക്ഷസഘ്ന സൂക്തങ്ങൾ ജപിച്ചു; മറ്റുള്ളവരും അതുപോലെ മന്ത്രോച്ചാരത്തിൽ ഏർപ്പെട്ടു; ചിലർ വിഷ്ണുവിൽ ശരണം പ്രാപിച്ചു, ചിലർ രുദ്രനിൽ।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator, context not explicit in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Brāhmaṇas respond in multiple ways: some chanting rakṣoghna sūktas, others taking shelter—some before Viṣṇu, others before Rudra—forming two devotional clusters amid fear.
FAQs
In संकट (crisis), dharma recommends japa and surrender to the Divine; devotion becomes protection.
No named site appears here; the verse emphasizes protective practice within the tīrtha-māhātmya narrative.
Recitation (japa) of rākṣasa-destroying sūktas and taking refuge (śaraṇāgati) in Viṣṇu or Rudra.