Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 51
अक्षौहिण्या दलेनैवायुद्ध्यत्कृष्णेन भो द्विजाः । स युध्यमानः कृष्णेन वध्यमानो हतौजसः
akṣauhiṇyā dalenaivāyuddhyatkṛṣṇena bho dvijāḥ | sa yudhyamānaḥ kṛṣṇena vadhyamāno hataujasaḥ
اے برہمنو! وہ شری کرشن سے لڑا، جن کے ساتھ صرف ایک اکشوہِنی کی ایک ٹکڑی تھی۔ کرشن سے نبرد آزما ہوتے ہوئے وہ پٹتا گیا اور اس کی قوت ٹوٹ گئی۔
Śrīprahlāda
Tirtha: Dvārakā (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇas (dvijāḥ)
Scene: Kṛṣṇa on chariot with a compact force, arrows flashing; Rukmī’s chariot rocked, his aura fading as he is struck; battlefield strewn with broken standards.
FAQs
Worldly power collapses before the divine; the Lord’s protection of dharma does not depend on vast armies.
Dvārakā, as the setting for Kṛṣṇa’s līlā and the later temple-gate tradition.
None; it is a narrative description of battle and defeat.