Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 13
स तस्य पार्श्वं निर्भिद्य ब्राह्मणस्य महात्मनः । वातापिः प्रहसंस्तत्र निश्चक्राम द्विजोदरात्
sa tasya pārśvaṃ nirbhidya brāhmaṇasya mahātmanaḥ | vātāpiḥ prahasaṃstatra niścakrāma dvijodarāt
اس نے اس عظیم النفس برہمن کی کروٹ چیر دی، اور واتاپی وہاں ہنستا ہوا دو بار جنمے کے پیٹ سے باہر نکل آیا۔
Narrator (within the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya frame)
Tirtha: प्रभासक्षेत्र
Type: kshetra
Listener: देवी
Scene: A shocking moment: Vātāpi bursts from the brāhmaṇa’s belly, laughing—blood and terror contrasted with the brāhmaṇa’s sanctity; Ilvala’s deception implied off-scene.
FAQs
Violence against the righteous is shown as extreme adharma; such acts invite inevitable downfall and the intervention of higher dharma.
The narrative is embedded in Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya, linking moral history with the sanctified geography of Prabhāsa.
None; it describes the violent consequence of the deceptive feast.