Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 101
अत्रस्थः साधयिष्यामि तां कृत्यां चिंतयन्हृदि । कृत्यां वा साधयिष्यामि यास्ये वा यमसादनम्
atrasthaḥ sādhayiṣyāmi tāṃ kṛtyāṃ ciṃtayanhṛdi | kṛtyāṃ vā sādhayiṣyāmi yāsye vā yamasādanam
“Di sini aku akan menyempurnakan Kṛtyā itu,” fikirnya dalam hati. “Sama ada aku berjaya membangkitkan Kṛtyā, atau aku akan pergi ke kediaman Yama (mati).”
Pippalāda (as quoted/reported by the narrator)
Tirtha: Śivāyatana (at Tuhinācala)
Type: temple
Scene: The protagonist, near a Śiva-linga, clenches his resolve inwardly: he will accomplish the Kṛtyā or die; the shrine feels still while his mind burns.
FAQs
Single-minded determination becomes perilous when aimed at harm; Purāṇas warn that such fixation courts death or downfall.
The verse continues the sacral setting (a holy precinct), nested in the Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya’s sacred-geography frame.
A Kṛtyā-sādhana is mentioned descriptively as a hostile practice, not as a recommended dhārmic rite.