Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 52
अथ सा काल्यमाना च धेनुः कोपसमन्विता । जमदग्निं हतं दृष्ट्वा ररम्भ करुणं मुहुः
atha sā kālyamānā ca dhenuḥ kopasamanvitā | jamadagniṃ hataṃ dṛṣṭvā rarambha karuṇaṃ muhuḥ
پھر وہ گائے، ہانکی جاتی ہوئی، غضب سے بھر گئی؛ جمَدگنی کو مقتول دیکھ کر وہ بار بار دردناک آواز میں ڈکارنے لگی۔
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; exact speaker not explicit in snippet)
Tirtha: Māhiṣmatī / Narmadā belt (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The cow, being driven forward, turns her head back toward the slain Jamadagni and bellows repeatedly—her eyes wet, body tense, anger and grief intermingled.
FAQs
Violence against the righteous (especially a brahmin sage) triggers grievous karmic consequences and cosmic disturbance, reflected even in nature’s lament.
The verse is within Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya framework; the immediate snippet does not name a specific tīrtha, but the episode functions as a narrative ground for tīrtha-glorification in the chapter.
None in this verse; it is narrative, setting up the moral and karmic stakes.