Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 25
प्राणिनो भक्षयन्सर्वान्संप्राप्तो विंध्यपर्वते । अस्मादनन्तरं भाव्यं कृकलासत्वमद्भुतम्
prāṇino bhakṣayansarvānsaṃprāpto viṃdhyaparvate | asmādanantaraṃ bhāvyaṃ kṛkalāsatvamadbhutam
सर्व प्राण्यांना भक्षण करत तो विंध्य पर्वतावर पोहोचला; यानंतर लगेचच अद्भुत असा बदल ठरला—तो कृकलास (पाल) होणार होता।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating to the sages (contextual attribution within Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa Māhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Vindhya (episode-setting); Dvārāvatī (implied next)
Type: peak
Listener: Dilīpa
Scene: A rākṣasa roaming the Vindhya slopes, devouring creatures; then a sudden, uncanny shift—his form shrinking into a lizard, suggesting karmic compression and impending release through wonder.
FAQs
Unchecked violence and sin ripen into painful karmic transformations, showing the inevitability of dharma’s moral law.
The broader chapter belongs to Dvārakā Māhātmya (glorifying Dvārakā), though this verse’s immediate geography mentions the Vindhya mountain.
None is stated in this verse; it describes karmic consequence through narrative.