Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 162
एवं संचित्यमानाहं स्थिता रात्रौ भयातुरा । कृमिराशिगतं त्वां हि कस्याहं कथयामि किम्
evaṃ saṃcityamānāhaṃ sthitā rātrau bhayāturā | kṛmirāśigataṃ tvāṃ hi kasyāhaṃ kathayāmi kim
یوں میں خوف زدہ ہو کر ساری رات اپنے آپ کو سنبھالے رہی۔ میں نے تمہیں کیڑوں کے ڈھیر میں دھنسا ہوا دیکھا؛ میں یہ بات کس سے کہوں—اور کیا کہوں؟
Wife (addressing her husband, the brāhmaṇa)
Tirtha: Revā-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A night scene: the narrator, trembling, witnesses a person sunk in a writhing heap of worms; the witness is torn between horror and the need to speak, with the sacred landscape dimly present.
FAQs
Hidden sin ripens into visible suffering, and fear arises when one witnesses the karmic consequence directly.
The immediate verse sets up the episode; the chapter context points toward the Eraṇḍī-saṅgama in the Revā region as the purifying tīrtha.
No explicit rite is stated in this verse; it introduces the crisis that leads to tīrtha-bathing and worship later in the passage.