Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 154
चर्मखड्गधरो रौद्रस्तिष्ठतिष्ठेति चाब्रवीत् । तमप्येवं गृहीत्वा तत्केशपाशे सुरेश्वरी
carmakhaḍgadharo raudrastiṣṭhatiṣṭheti cābravīt | tamapyevaṃ gṛhītvā tatkeśapāśe sureśvarī
အရေကာနှင့် ဓားကို ကိုင်ဆောင်သော ရက်စက်သူတစ်ဦးက “ရပ်လော့၊ ရပ်လော့” ဟု အော်ဟစ်၏။ သို့ရာတွင် သုရေရှွရီသည် ထိုနည်းတူပင် သူ၏ ဆံပင်ချောင်းကို ဆုပ်ကိုင်ဖမ်းယူလေ၏။
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta-style narration within Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Arbuda-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Royal listener (‘pārthiva-śreṣṭha’ addressed in adjacent verse)
Scene: A roaring asura with hide-shield and sword shouts a command; Devī, unshaken, seizes him by the hair-lock, arresting his motion mid-charge.
FAQs
Divine protection is decisive: arrogance and violence are subdued when the Goddess upholds dharma.
Arbuda (Mount Abu region), also linked in this passage to the famed Varaparvata setting of the Devī’s deeds.
None directly; the verse is narrative, establishing the Goddess’s protective power that later supports the site’s sanctity.