Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 2
तेन यत्कमला शप्ता ब्राह्मणेन महात्मना । सा कथं गज वक्त्राऽथ पुनर्जाता शुभानना
tena yatkamalā śaptā brāhmaṇena mahātmanā | sā kathaṃ gaja vaktrā'tha punarjātā śubhānanā
اُس عظیمُ النفس برہمن کے شاپ سے کملاؔ ملعون ہوئی؛ پھر وہ کیسے گج مُکھی بنی، اور بعد میں کیسے دوبارہ شُبھ چہرے کے ساتھ جنم لے آئی؟
Ṛṣis (sages)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A questioning scene: the listener asks how Kamalā, cursed by a great brāhmaṇa, became elephant-faced and later regained auspicious beauty—framed as a suspenseful inquiry in a sacred narrative setting.
FAQs
It points to the moral causality of śāpa (curse) and the possibility of restoration through divine arrangement and austerity.
Not specified in this verse; the tīrtha context appears in the subsequent narration.
None directly; it sets up the explanation that follows.