Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
हैहयाधिपते पाप यैः करैर्जनको मम । त्वया विनिहतस्तान्मे शीघ्रं दर्शय सांप्रतम्
haihayādhipate pāpa yaiḥ karairjanako mama | tvayā vinihatastānme śīghraṃ darśaya sāṃpratam
“اے ہَیہَیوں کے سردار، اے گنہگار! جن ہاتھوں سے تو نے میرے باپ جنک کو قتل کیا تھا، وہی ہاتھ مجھے فوراً دکھا۔”
Rāma (Paraśurāma)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Close confrontation: Paraśurāma points or gestures toward the Haihaya lord, demanding to see the very hands that killed his father; tension concentrates on hands/arms.
FAQs
Adharma (violent wrongdoing) creates inescapable accountability; lineage-dharma and justice are invoked in the Purāṇic moral world.
The verse occurs within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya, as the narrative leads toward Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra and its rites.
No explicit rite is prescribed here; it is a confrontation speech within the tīrtha-context narrative.