Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3
अथ तां पार्थिवस्तूर्णं शरेणानतपर्वणा । जघानाकर्णकृष्टेन मर्मस्थाने प्रहर्षितः
atha tāṃ pārthivastūrṇaṃ śareṇānataparvaṇā | jaghānākarṇakṛṣṭena marmasthāne praharṣitaḥ
Kemudian raja itu segera memanahnya dengan anak panah yang sendinya tidak melentur, ditarik hingga ke telinga, mengenai titik yang genting, dalam keterujaan hatinya.
Sūta
Type: kshetra
Scene: The king releases a fully drawn arrow to the ear; it strikes the doe at a vital spot—dramatic rupture of the earlier calm nursing scene.
FAQs
Acts done in heedless exhilaration can become the trigger for karmic reversal and later repentance—common in tīrtha-māhātmya narratives.
The verse continues the Nāgarakhaṇḍa forest setting that will be revealed as spiritually charged through ensuing events.
None; it narrates the king’s action, preparing for subsequent dharma/atonement instructions typical of Purāṇic tīrtha accounts.