Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 26
आर्यस्य बालपुत्रस्य द्युमत्सेनस्य रुक्मिणा । सामन्तेन हृतं राज्यं छिद्रेऽस्मिन्पूर्ववैरिणा
āryasya bālaputrasya dyumatsenasya rukmiṇā | sāmantena hṛtaṃ rājyaṃ chidre'sminpūrvavairiṇā
ท้าวทยุมตเสนผู้สูงศักดิ์ แม้มีโอรสยังเยาว์ ราชสมบัติกลับถูก รุกมิน ผู้เป็นสามันตะ (เจ้าเมืองขึ้น) และศัตรูเก่า ฉวยช่องแห่งความอ่อนแอนี้เข้ายึดไป
Sāvitrī
Tirtha: प्रभासक्षेत्र
Type: kshetra
Listener: A king (nṛpati) addressed in the surrounding dialogue
Scene: A dispossessed king Dyumatsena, with a small child, stands in a dim palace court as the feudatory Rukmin seizes the royal insignia; the mood is heavy with betrayal and impending exile.
FAQs
Dharma is fragile when vigilance is lost; adversity often comes through those who exploit a moment of weakness.
The episode is embedded in Prabhāsa-kṣetra’s māhātmya, where moral history supports the sacred narrative frame.
None; it provides the ethical-historical cause leading to forest life and later dharmic exemplars.