Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 24
पतितोऽधोमुखो भूत्वा ततः शूलेन भेदितः । शूलाग्रसंस्थितः पापश्चक्रवद्भ्रमते ततः
patito'dhomukho bhūtvā tataḥ śūlena bheditaḥ | śūlāgrasaṃsthitaḥ pāpaścakravadbhramate tataḥ
وہ منہ کے بل گر پڑا، پھر ترشول سے چھید دیا گیا۔ ترشول کی نوک پر ٹکا ہوا وہ گنہگار پھر پہیے کی طرح گھومنے لگا۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; specific speaker not explicit in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The demon falls face-down, then is impaled by Śiva’s trident; fixed on the trident’s tip, he spins like a wheel—an uncanny, terrifying spectacle of divine chastisement.
FAQs
The trident symbolizes the Lord’s mastery over the three guṇas; wrongdoing is shown as unstable and self-destructive when confronted by divine justice.
Not indicated in this verse; it remains within the chapter’s larger Tīrthamāhātmya frame.
None.