Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 8
इन्द्र उवाच । का त्वं वद वरारोहे किमर्थं त्वमिहागता । देवी वा नागकन्या वा सिद्धा विद्याधरी तु वा
indra uvāca | kā tvaṃ vada varārohe kimarthaṃ tvamihāgatā | devī vā nāgakanyā vā siddhā vidyādharī tu vā
اندَر نے کہا: “اے حسین و بلند قامت! بتا، تو کون ہے؟ تو یہاں کس غرض سے آئی ہے؟ کیا تو دیوی ہے، یا ناگ کنیا، یا سدّھا، یا ودیادھری؟”
Indra (Śakra)
Tirtha: Arbuda-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: The newly manifested maiden (identity to be disclosed in subsequent verses)
Scene: Indra, holding the vajra, addresses the radiant maiden with respectful yet desirous curiosity; behind them, the sacred stream and mountain grove suggest a liminal meeting place of celestial and earthly realms.
FAQs
Sacred spaces attract beings of many orders; discernment (knowing who one encounters) is presented as part of dharmic conduct.
The encounter occurs within the Arbuda sacred geography; the tīrtha context is implied rather than named in this verse.
None; this is a conversational inquiry initiating the episode.