Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 27
बहुपादा विपादाश्च एकपादास्तथापराः । तथान्याश्चार्धपादाश्च अधोवक्त्रा विभीषणाः
bahupādā vipādāśca ekapādāstathāparāḥ | tathānyāścārdhapādāśca adhovaktrā vibhīṣaṇāḥ
ചിലർക്കു പല പാദങ്ങൾ; ചിലർക്കു രണ്ട്; മറ്റുചിലർക്കു ഒറ്റ പാദം. ചിലർക്കു അർദ്ധപാദം; ഭയാനകരായ ചിലർക്കു മുഖം താഴോട്ടു തിരിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു.
Unspecified (narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; likely Sūta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A procession-like vision of grotesque, otherworldly beings: some many-footed, some two-footed, some one-footed, some half-footed; some with faces turned downward, looming at the edge of a sacred landscape, suggesting a liminal boundary near a tīrtha.
FAQs
It dramatizes spiritual testing: the pilgrim must keep discernment and devotion even amid frightening sights.
The immediate verse does not state the tīrtha name; it sits within the broader Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narrative.
No explicit prescription is present.