Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 7
कथयन्राजते राजा कैलास इव शङ्करः । एवं स पालयन्राज्यं राजा मन्त्रिणमब्रवीत्
kathayanrājate rājā kailāsa iva śaṅkaraḥ | evaṃ sa pālayanrājyaṃ rājā mantriṇamabravīt
உரையாடிக் கொண்டிருந்த அரசன், கைலாசத்தில் விளங்கும் சங்கரனைப் போல ஒளிர்ந்தான். இவ்வாறு அரசாட்சியை நடத்திக் கொண்டே அரசன் அமைச்சரிடம் கூறினான்.
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator, unspecified in snippet)
Scene: The king, radiant while speaking, is visually paralleled with Śaṅkara seated on snowy Kailāsa; then the king turns to address his minister in a composed governance setting.
FAQs
Purāṇic kingship is sanctified when aligned with divine qualities—clarity, steadiness, and dharmic counsel.
Kailāsa is invoked as a Śaiva ideal; the ongoing chapter context remains within the Revā Khaṇḍa sacred landscape.
None; it transitions the story into the king’s instruction to his minister.