Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 28
विवृद्ध्य मूषिका रथ्यावितुन्नमणिकास्तथा । केशान्ददंशुः सुप्तानां नृणां युवतयो निशि
vivṛddhya mūṣikā rathyāvitunnamaṇikāstathā | keśāndadaṃśuḥ suptānāṃ nṛṇāṃ yuvatayo niśi
എലികൾ അതിയായി വർദ്ധിച്ചു; അതുപോലെ രഥ്യാവിതുന്നമണികാ എന്ന കീടങ്ങളും പടർന്നു. രാത്രിയിൽ ഉറങ്ങുന്ന പുരുഷന്മാരുടെ മുടി യുവതികൾ കടിച്ചു.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator in Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya; traditionally Sūta)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: Lanes teem with multiplying rats and pests; at night an unsettling inversion of conduct occurs—young women biting the hair of sleeping men—signaling a breakdown of normalcy and dharma.
FAQs
The Purāṇa depicts adharma’s approach through unnatural disturbances in society and nature, urging vigilance, purification, and renewed dharmic living.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra is the background sacred geography; the māhātmya uses local narrative to teach universal dharma.
None; the verse catalogs ominous, abnormal occurrences.