Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 35
मल्लश्चैव तथा कंसो जरासंधस्तथैव च । कालयवनस्य हंता च कथं वै स हयाननः । तारकासुरं रणे जित्वा अयुतषट्पुरं तथा
mallaścaiva tathā kaṃso jarāsaṃdhastathaiva ca | kālayavanasya haṃtā ca kathaṃ vai sa hayānanaḥ | tārakāsuraṃ raṇe jitvā ayutaṣaṭpuraṃ tathā
اور پہلوان بھی، نیز کَنس اور جراسندھ بھی؛ اور کالَیَوَن کا قاتل—پھر وہ کیسے ہَیانن ہو سکتا ہے؟ اس نے جنگ میں تارکاسُر کو جیتا، اور اسی طرح اَیوتَشَٹپُر بھی (حاصل کیا)—
Narrator/Questioner within Dharmāraṇya Māhātmya (continuing inquiry; mixed heroic references)
Tirtha: Mathurā–Dvārakā (implied)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A sweeping heroic panorama: wrestlers in an arena, Kaṃsa’s fall, Jarāsandha’s campaigns, Kālayavana’s defeat, and a cosmic battlefield where Tārakāsura is conquered—culminating in the narrator’s astonished question about Hayānana identity and the mention of a wondrous city (Ayutaṣaṭpura).
FAQs
The one divinity performs many world-protecting deeds; apparent differences of form (like Hayānana) do not limit supreme power.
No single tīrtha is specified in this verse; it functions within Dharmāraṇya’s māhātmya narrative framework.
None; the verse is primarily narrative and theological.