Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
कथं तत्र पुरा शक्रः स्वामिद्रोहसमुद्भवात् । पातकादेव निर्मुक्तः कस्मिन्काले च सूतज
kathaṃ tatra purā śakraḥ svāmidrohasamudbhavāt | pātakādeva nirmuktaḥ kasminkāle ca sūtaja
हे सूतपुत्रा! पूर्वी काळी तेथे शक्र (इंद्र) स्वामिद्रोहातून उत्पन्न त्या पातकातून कसा मुक्त झाला, आणि ते कोणत्या काळी घडले?
Ṛṣayaḥ (Sages)
Tirtha: Śakra-samudrava
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sūtaja / Sūta
Scene: Sages press Sūta for details: how and when Indra was absolved at Śakra-samudrava; Indra is imagined with vajra and humility, approaching the ocean-like tīrtha for purification.
FAQs
Purāṇic tīrtha narratives frame moral failure and purification as a teachable path through sacred place and divine grace.
Śakra-samudrava-tīrtha, where Śakra is said to have been released from sin.
None explicitly; it requests the account of the event and its timing.