Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 11
विद्युन्माली च बन्धूकः शंकुकर्णो विभावसुः । देवांतको विकर्मा च दुर्भिक्ष क्रूर एव च
vidyunmālī ca bandhūkaḥ śaṃkukarṇo vibhāvasuḥ | devāṃtako vikarmā ca durbhikṣa krūra eva ca
اور وِدیونمالی، بندھوک، شنکوکرن اور وِبھاوَسو؛ دیوانتک، وِکرما، دُربھکش اور کرور بھی—یہ سب اُن کے سرداروں میں شمار ہوتے تھے۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya; traditionally Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa addressing sages)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (chapter frame)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A roll-call of formidable Daitiya chiefs—each with distinct emblems—standing in martial assembly, suggesting an impending cosmic crisis.
FAQs
Adharma manifests socially as cruelty, disorderly action (vikarma), and even famine—signs of a world needing divine and dharmic correction.
Prabhāsakṣetra, the sacred frame of this māhātmya narration.
None in this verse.
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