Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 23
कस्यचित्त्वथ कालस्य भगवान्पाकशासनः । वैदिशे नाकरोद्वृष्टिं सप्त वर्षाणि पंच च
kasyacittvatha kālasya bhagavānpākaśāsanaḥ | vaidiśe nākarodvṛṣṭiṃ sapta varṣāṇi paṃca ca
मग काही काळ भगवान् पाकशासन (इंद्र) यांनी विदिशेत पाऊस पाडला नाही—सात वर्षे आणि आणखी पाच वर्षे.
Unspecified narrator (a merchant/traveler) within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya
Type: kshetra
Scene: A parched Vidiśā under a relentless sky; cracked earth, withered fields; Indra’s presence implied in the heavens withholding rain—an ominous stillness before the pilgrimage turn.
FAQs
Cosmic governance affects human life; drought and prosperity are portrayed as divinely regulated, urging humility and dharmic resilience.
Vidiśā is named as the afflicted region; the tīrtha praised in the māhātmya is reached later in the narrative.
None explicitly; the verse describes a drought attributed to Indra’s withholding of rain.