Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 148
ब्रह्मास्त्रे विफले जाते ह्याग्नेयं दानवोत्तमः । प्रेषयामास तां क्रुद्धो ह्यहनद्वारुणेन सा
brahmāstre viphale jāte hyāgneyaṃ dānavottamaḥ | preṣayāmāsa tāṃ kruddho hyahanadvāruṇena sā
جب برہماستر بے اثر ہوا تو غضبناک دانَووں کے سردار نے آگنیہ استر پھینکا؛ دیوی نے وارُنیہ استر سے اسے پاش پاش کر کے گرا دیا۔
Deductive: Purāṇic narrator (likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Somnātha region)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A furious Dānava hurls a blazing Agneyāstra; the Devī calmly releases the Vāruṇāstra, forming a vast, cool oceanic surge that quenches the fire in mid-sky.
FAQs
Dharma restores balance: destructive fire is pacified by the cooling, ordering power symbolized by Varuṇa.
Not specified in this verse; the broader setting remains Arbuda within the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa.
None; it is a description of elemental astras in combat.