Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 89
एवमुक्ते स जग्राह त नगेद्रोऽपवर्जिम् । कृतस्मरस्तत्संस्पर्शात्क्षणाद्भस्मत्वमागतः
evamukte sa jagrāha ta nagedro'pavarjim | kṛtasmarastatsaṃsparśātkṣaṇādbhasmatvamāgataḥ
یہ سن کر اُس پہاڑوں کے سردار نے اسے ہاتھ میں لے لیا؛ مگر ‘کرتَسمر’ نامی وہی شخص، اسی لمس سے، پل بھر میں بھسم ہو گیا۔
Narrator (Purāṇic narration; speaker not explicit in this snippet)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: The mountain-lord takes the Vaḍava in hand; instantly, Kṛtasmara is consumed—reduced to ash—by the object’s fiery potency, while Śāradā remains composed.
FAQs
Contact with divinely empowered forces in a tīrtha can instantly transform karma and fate—Purāṇas portray sacred power as immediate and decisive.
Prabhāsa-kṣetra, presented as a landscape where divine energies act tangibly in the world.
None directly; the verse narrates a miraculous consequence tied to the Goddess’ instruction.