Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 52
तस्यापरे च गात्रेषु दशनांश्चन्यपातयन् । अपरे मुष्टिभिः पृष्ठं किंकरास्ताडयंति च
tasyāpare ca gātreṣu daśanāṃścanyapātayan | apare muṣṭibhiḥ pṛṣṭhaṃ kiṃkarāstāḍayaṃti ca
ਕਈਆਂ ਨੇ ਉਸ ਦੇ ਅੰਗਾਂ ਉੱਤੇ ਵਾਰ ਕਰਕੇ ਦੰਦ ਵੀ ਝਾੜ ਦਿੱਤੇ। ਹੋਰ—ਯਮ ਦੇ ਦੂਤ—ਮੁੱਕਿਆਂ ਨਾਲ ਉਸ ਦੀ ਪਿੱਠ ਨੂੰ ਲਗਾਤਾਰ ਕੁੱਟਦੇ ਰਹੇ।
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) (deduced: Māheśvara-khaṇḍa narration to sages)
Scene: Brutal hand-to-hand combat: blows land on limbs; teeth scatter; Yama-like attendants pound the back with fists in relentless rhythm, dust rising around the struggling figure.
FAQs
Unchecked aggression meets resistance; Purāṇic narrative frames violence as leading to further suffering and confrontation with Yama’s order.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it is a narrative episode within Kaumārikā-khaṇḍa.
None in this verse; it describes a conflict with Yama’s attendants.