Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 29
वने नित्यं भ्रमन्सोऽथ मृगयूथं ददर्श ह । मृगयूथं हतं तत्तु त्रिलोचनसुतेन च
vane nityaṃ bhramanso'tha mṛgayūthaṃ dadarśa ha | mṛgayūthaṃ hataṃ tattu trilocanasutena ca
Rồi khi ngày ngày lang thang trong rừng, ông thấy một bầy nai. Bầy nai ấy quả thật đã bị con trai của Trilocana (Kaṇva) sát hại.
Mārkaṇḍeya
Listener: assembled sages / interlocutor addressed as 'munisattama' in nearby verses
Scene: A solitary wanderer in a dense forest glimpses a deer-herd; the aftermath of a hunt is visible, foreshadowing moral consequence.
FAQs
Violence undertaken in heedlessness becomes a seed of karmic consequence, which later drives the seeker toward sacred remedies.
No site is praised directly in this verse; it forms the narrative lead-up to the Revā/Urisaṅgama episode.
None; the verse describes an event (slaying in the forest).