Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 10
स जघान मृगांस्तत्र शरैराशीविषोपमैः । महिषांश्चवराहांश्च तरक्षूञ्च्छम्बरान्रुरून्
sa jaghāna mṛgāṃstatra śarairāśīviṣopamaiḥ | mahiṣāṃścavarāhāṃśca tarakṣūñcchambarānrurūn
وہاں اس نے آشی وِش سانپوں جیسے زہریلے تیروں سے جنگلی جانوروں کو مار گرایا—ہرن، بھینسے، سور، لکڑبگھے، سانبھر اور ہرنوں کی دیگر قسمیں—اور شاہی شکار کی سخت ہیبت دکھائی۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa relating the Māhātmya narrative)
Scene: The king releases arrows compared to venomous serpents; multiple animals—boar, buffalo, hyena, sambara, antelope—scatter or fall amid dust and foliage.
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives often begin with worldly action (like a royal hunt) to set the stage for a turn toward dharma and tīrtha-merit; power without sacred orientation is incomplete.
This verse functions as narrative prelude within the Tīrthamāhātmya; the specific tīrtha is typically revealed in the surrounding verses of Adhyāya 17 rather than in this line alone.
None is stated in this verse; it describes the hunt and the king’s prowess.