Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14
मध्याह्नसमये प्राप्ते वृषस्थे च दिवाकरे । क्षुत्पिपासापरिश्रांतो विश्वामित्रो द्विजोत्तमाः
madhyāhnasamaye prāpte vṛṣasthe ca divākare | kṣutpipāsāpariśrāṃto viśvāmitro dvijottamāḥ
मध्याह्नकाळी, सूर्य वृषराशीत स्थित असता, क्षुधा-पिपासेने परिश्रांत विश्वामित्र, हे द्विजोत्तम, अत्यंत थकला।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; specific speaker not explicit in this verse)
Listener: dvijottama (addressed)
Scene: At blazing midday, the hunter-sage-king Viśvāmitra pauses, visibly parched and weary, the sun overhead; the forest seems still, heat shimmering.
FAQs
Even the mighty are bound by bodily needs; acknowledging limitation becomes the doorway to receiving dharmic support (āśrama hospitality).
Not specified in this verse; it provides temporal and narrative context within the Tīrthamāhātmya.
None; the verse notes time (midday) and the condition of hunger and thirst.
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