Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 45
एकस्मिन्दिवसे विप्राः सर्वे यदुकुमारकाः । वनं जग्मुर्मृगान्हन्तुं सर्वे कृष्णसमन्विताः
ekasmindivase viprāḥ sarve yadukumārakāḥ | vanaṃ jagmurmṛgānhantuṃ sarve kṛṣṇasamanvitāḥ
ਇੱਕ ਦਿਨ, ਹੇ ਵਿਪ੍ਰੋ, ਸਾਰੇ ਯਦੁ-ਕੁਮਾਰ—ਸ੍ਰੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਨ ਦੇ ਸੰਗ ਨਾਲ—ਹਿਰਨਾਂ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਜੰਗਲ ਨੂੰ ਗਏ।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Dvārakā Māhātmya)
Tirtha: Dvārakā (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇas/Ṛṣis
Scene: A group of Yadu princes with bows and hunting gear enter a forest; Kṛṣṇa at the center, serene, blue-hued, guiding the party.
FAQs
Purāṇic episodes often begin with ordinary activities that become occasions for divine intervention and moral instruction.
Dvārakā is the māhātmya-frame; the forest episode functions as narrative lead-in to a Dvārakā-centered revelation.
None; it is a narrative transition verse.