Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 125
विमुंचंश्च शरान्नादांस्तिष्ठतिष्ठेति च ब्रुवन् । न कश्चिद्दृश्यते तत्र तेषां मध्ये नृपोत्तम
vimuṃcaṃśca śarānnādāṃstiṣṭhatiṣṭheti ca bruvan | na kaściddṛśyate tatra teṣāṃ madhye nṛpottama
मोठ्या गर्जनेसह बाण सोडीत ‘थांबा, थांबा’ असे म्हणत असताना, त्या श्रेष्ठ राजाला तिथे त्यांच्या मध्ये कोणीच दिसेना.
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Skanda Purāṇa context; specific speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Arbuda (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A king shoots arrows into empty space, shouting challenges; the battlefield appears strangely vacant, with only dust and echo answering him.
FAQs
Human force and rage become futile when the divine will withholds a visible target—ego finds no footing before Devī.
The setting belongs to the Arbuda sacred landscape (Arbuda-khaṇḍa), though a particular tīrtha is not named in this verse.
None; it is a descriptive battle-scene.