Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 57
युग्यानां च सहस्रेण द्विप्रमाणेन स्यंदनम् । सिंहानां प्रयुतेनैव वाह्यमानं च तस्य तत्
yugyānāṃ ca sahasreṇa dvipramāṇena syaṃdanam | siṃhānāṃ prayutenaiva vāhyamānaṃ ca tasya tat
اُس کا رتھ، ہاتھی کے برابر عظیم، ہزار جُتے ہوئے گھوڑوں سے کھنچتا تھا؛ اور ایک پرَیُت (بے شمار) شیروں کے ذریعے بھی وہ آگے بڑھایا جاتا تھا۔
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta), narrating to the sages (deduced)
Scene: A colossal chariot, elephant-sized, drawn by a thousand steeds and propelled amid a multitude of lions—an impossible, mythic war-procession surging toward the sacrificial pavilion.
FAQs
The Puranas use cosmic scale to signify divine inevitability—no worldly power can resist the force that protects dharma.
The Kedārakhaṇḍa context frames it within Kedāra’s sacred narrative; the verse itself is not a tīrtha-stuti.
None; it is a description of Vīrabhadra’s conveyance and martial grandeur.