Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
कथं स भगवान्रुद्रो भार्याशापमवाप ह । वैकृतं रूपमासाद्य पुनर्दिव्यं वपुः श्रितः
kathaṃ sa bhagavānrudro bhāryāśāpamavāpa ha | vaikṛtaṃ rūpamāsādya punardivyaṃ vapuḥ śritaḥ
وہ بھگوان رودر اپنی زوجہ کے شاپ کے زیرِ اثر کیسے آیا؟ اور بگڑی ہوئی صورت اختیار کر کے وہ کیسے پھر الٰہی جسم میں لوٹ آیا؟
Śūdra (continuing question; implied from prior verse)
Listener: Gālava (implied respondent)
Scene: A sage narrates how Rudra, under Pārvatī’s curse, takes on a ‘vaikṛta’ (altered) form—perhaps emaciated, masked, or shadowed—then regains radiant divinity after propitiation; the scene alternates between two iconographic states.
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives use transformation and restoration to teach that disharmony (even via curse) is ultimately resolved into divine order and grace.
Not specified in this standalone verse; it belongs to the broader Tīrthamāhātmya framework of Nāgarakhaṇḍa.
None in this verse; it is a question prompting the ensuing account.