Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
पुलस्त्य उवाच । पुरा वृष्टिनिरोधोऽभूद्यावद्द्वादशवत्सरान् । संशयं परमं प्राप्तः सर्वो लोकः क्षुधार्दितः
pulastya uvāca | purā vṛṣṭinirodho'bhūdyāvaddvādaśavatsarān | saṃśayaṃ paramaṃ prāptaḥ sarvo lokaḥ kṣudhārditaḥ
ପୁଲସ୍ତ୍ୟ କହିଲେ: ପ୍ରାଚୀନ କାଳରେ ବାର ବର୍ଷ ପର୍ଯ୍ୟନ୍ତ ବର୍ଷା ହୋଇନଥିଲା । ଭୋକରେ ପୀଡ଼ିତ ହୋଇ ସମଗ୍ର ସଂସାର ଘୋର ସଙ୍କଟ ଏବଂ ସଂଶୟରେ ପଡ଼ିଯାଇଥିଲା ।
Pulastya
Listener: Yayāti
Scene: A parched landscape under a harsh sky; cracked earth, withered trees, empty riverbeds; people gaunt with hunger; the sense of a world holding its breath for rain.
FAQs
Collective suffering becomes the backdrop for revealing tīrtha power and divine interventions in Purāṇic tradition.
The immediate narrative is leading toward Agni-tīrtha, though this verse describes the drought’s onset.
None; it provides historical-cosmic context for the tīrtha māhātmya.