Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 73
तेषां मध्ये ददर्शाथ समाधिस्थः स कर्दमः । स्वं शिशुं शिशुमारेण नीयमानं सुविह्वलम्
teṣāṃ madhye dadarśātha samādhisthaḥ sa kardamaḥ | svaṃ śiśuṃ śiśumāreṇa nīyamānaṃ suvihvalam
پھر انہی کے درمیان، سمادھی میں قائم کردَم نے اپنے ہی بچے کو دیکھا کہ ایک مگرمچھ اسے گھسیٹ کر لے جا رہا ہے، اور وہ نہایت بے قرار و مضطرب تھا۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Unnamed saras/pushkariṇī (scene-specific)
Type: kund
Scene: At the center of playful bathers, Kardama—still marked by meditative composure—suddenly perceives his child seized by a crocodile; the child’s body is pulled toward deeper water, face contorted in fear; surrounding figures freeze in shock.
FAQs
Even the spiritually advanced face worldly peril; in sacred narratives, संकट becomes the doorway to divine protection and dharma.
The incident unfolds at a sacred waterbody within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa context; the verse does not specify the tirtha name.
None; it introduces the crisis that drives the next actions.