Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 22
ततो निरीक्षते चोर्ध्वमधश्चैव दिशो दश । वेपमानः स भीतश्च प्रस्खलंश्च पदे पदे
tato nirīkṣate cordhvamadhaścaiva diśo daśa | vepamānaḥ sa bhītaśca praskhalaṃśca pade pade
پھر وہ اوپر بھی دیکھتا ہے اور نیچے بھی، اور دسوں سمتوں میں نگاہ ڈالتا ہے۔ خوف سے کانپتا ہوا وہ ہر قدم پر ٹھوکر کھاتا ہے۔
Unknown (Revā Khaṇḍa narrative voice)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) narrative setting
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: A frightened figure scanning up and down and across the ten directions; the space seems to spin, with directional guardians faintly suggested; the pilgrim stumbles repeatedly, conveying moral and psychological vertigo.
FAQs
A mind burdened by wrongdoing becomes unstable and terrified; the text dramatizes inner guilt as outer disorientation.
No specific holy site is named in this verse.
None; it is descriptive imagery.