Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 22
भट्टिकापि जगामाशु स्वाश्रमं प्रति दुःखिता । भयत्रस्तैः समंताच्च वीक्ष्यमाणा महोरगैः
bhaṭṭikāpi jagāmāśu svāśramaṃ prati duḥkhitā | bhayatrastaiḥ samaṃtācca vīkṣyamāṇā mahoragaiḥ
भट्टिकाही दुःखी होऊन शीघ्रच आपल्या आश्रमाकडे निघाली। भयग्रस्त महोरग तिला सर्व बाजूंनी पाहत राहिले।
Narrator (contextual; within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya discourse)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Bhaṭṭikā, sorrowful, hastens toward her hermitage path while large serpents coil and rise on either side, watching with fearful agitation; the landscape feels tense and deserted.
FAQs
After witnessing dharmic power, even the hostile become subdued; sorrow prompts reflection and course-correction.
The verse references an āśrama setting within the tīrtha-māhātmya narrative; the exact tīrtha is not named here.
None explicitly.