Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 56
अथासौ विस्मयाद्राजन्पंचत्वं समुपस्थितः । ततो जातिस्मरो जातो विदर्भाधिपतेर्गृहे
athāsau vismayādrājanpaṃcatvaṃ samupasthitaḥ | tato jātismaro jāto vidarbhādhipatergṛhe
तेव्हा, हे राजन्, विस्मयामुळे तो पंचत्वास गेला. नंतर तो विदर्भाधिपतीच्या घरी जन्मला आणि पूर्वजन्मस्मृतीयुक्त झाला.
Pulastya
Tirtha: Arbuda-tīrtha (implied locus of death/merit)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rājā
Scene: The narrator describes the man’s sudden death born of astonishment; then a luminous transition to a royal palace in Vidarbha where a newborn/young prince bears the rare mark of jātismara—eyes reflecting remembered suffering and wonder.
FAQs
Actions and inner states carry across lives; the Purāṇic narrative uses rebirth to show how dharma ripens beyond a single lifetime.
The story’s merit-thread remains tied to the Arbuda sacred region, even as the rebirth occurs in Vidarbha.
None directly; the verse establishes karmic continuity and sets up the later vrata and dāna pattern.