Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 11
विद्युन्माली च बन्धूकः शंकुकर्णो विभावसुः । देवांतको विकर्मा च दुर्भिक्ष क्रूर एव च
vidyunmālī ca bandhūkaḥ śaṃkukarṇo vibhāvasuḥ | devāṃtako vikarmā ca durbhikṣa krūra eva ca
വിദ്യുന്മാലി, ബന്ധൂക, ശങ്കുകർണ്ണ, വിഭാവസു; കൂടാതെ ദേവാന്തക, വികർമാ, ദുര്ഭിക്ഷ, ക്രൂരൻ—ഇവരും അവരുടെ പ്രധാന നേതാക്കളിൽ പെട്ടവർ ആയിരുന്നു।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya; traditionally Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa addressing sages)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (chapter frame)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A roll-call of formidable Daitiya chiefs—each with distinct emblems—standing in martial assembly, suggesting an impending cosmic crisis.
FAQs
Adharma manifests socially as cruelty, disorderly action (vikarma), and even famine—signs of a world needing divine and dharmic correction.
Prabhāsakṣetra, the sacred frame of this māhātmya narration.
None in this verse.