Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 12
एतस्मिन्नंतरे मुक्त्वा तस्य गात्रं स पन्नगः । जगामान्यत्र तस्यापि सर्पत्वं समपद्यत
etasminnaṃtare muktvā tasya gātraṃ sa pannagaḥ | jagāmānyatra tasyāpi sarpatvaṃ samapadyata
اسی وقت وہ ناگ اس کے جسم کو چھوڑ کر دوسری جگہ چلا گیا؛ اور وہ (قصوروار) بھی سانپ ہونے کی حالت کو پہنچ گیا۔
Narrator
Type: kshetra
Scene: The serpent uncoils and departs; simultaneously the boy’s body begins to take serpentine form—skin texture shifting, posture lowering—while the assembly watches in stunned silence.
FAQs
The fruit of wrongdoing (and the power of a righteous pronouncement) manifests tangibly; dharma operates as immediate moral causality in purāṇic storytelling.
Not named in this verse; the tīrtha context is broader than this transformation line.
None; it narrates the result (phala) of a curse.