Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 29
वने नित्यं भ्रमन्सोऽथ मृगयूथं ददर्श ह । मृगयूथं हतं तत्तु त्रिलोचनसुतेन च
vane nityaṃ bhramanso'tha mṛgayūthaṃ dadarśa ha | mṛgayūthaṃ hataṃ tattu trilocanasutena ca
پھر وہ روزانہ جنگل میں بھٹکتے ہوئے ہرنوں کے ایک ریوڑ کو دیکھتا ہے۔ وہ ریوڑ یقیناً تریلوچن کے بیٹے (کنو) کے ہاتھوں مارا گیا تھا۔
Mārkaṇḍeya
Listener: assembled sages / interlocutor addressed as 'munisattama' in nearby verses
Scene: A solitary wanderer in a dense forest glimpses a deer-herd; the aftermath of a hunt is visible, foreshadowing moral consequence.
FAQs
Violence undertaken in heedlessness becomes a seed of karmic consequence, which later drives the seeker toward sacred remedies.
No site is praised directly in this verse; it forms the narrative lead-up to the Revā/Urisaṅgama episode.
None; the verse describes an event (slaying in the forest).