Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
दैवयोगात्क्वचित्किंचित्कस्यचिद्यदि दृश्यते । सस्यं सिद्धमसिद्धं वा ह्रियते वीर्यतः परैः
daivayogātkvacitkiṃcitkasyacidyadi dṛśyate | sasyaṃ siddhamasiddhaṃ vā hriyate vīryataḥ paraiḥ
اگر تقدیر کے کسی الٹ پھیر سے کہیں کسی کا تھوڑا سا اناج دکھائی دے جائے تو دوسرے لوگ زور سے چھین لیتے ہیں—فصل پکی ہو یا کچی، طاقت کے بل پر لوٹ لیتے ہیں۔
Skanda (deduced; Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narration style)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A field with sparse stalks; a weak farmer guarding a small heap of grain while armed men seize it; cracked earth and a dim sun.
FAQs
When dharma weakens and scarcity rises, society turns to force and theft; the Purāṇa frames this as a symptom of adharma that sacred merit and right conduct are meant to heal.
This verse functions as the famine-setting within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya; the specific tīrtha praise lies in the surrounding passage of Adhyāya 90.
None in this verse; it describes conditions of lawlessness during famine.