Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 17
तस्य कांतिलवस्पृष्टं कांस्यं ताम्रमयस्त्रपु । पाषाणादिकमन्यद्वा सद्यो भवति कांचनम्
tasya kāṃtilavaspṛṣṭaṃ kāṃsyaṃ tāmramayastrapu | pāṣāṇādikamanyadvā sadyo bhavati kāṃcanam
Chỉ cần chạm vào một phần nhỏ ánh huy hoàng của nó, đồng thiếc, đồng đỏ, sắt, thiếc—thậm chí đá và các vật khác—lập tức hóa thành vàng.
Sūta (deduced)
Scene: A workshop-like setting: bronze, copper, iron, tin, and even stones lie near the jewel; a faint ray touches them and they gleam into gold instantly, startling witnesses.
FAQs
Contact with the sacred (even in a small measure) is portrayed as instantly transformative—externally and, by implication, spiritually.
The story context remains Ujjayinī and its Mahākāla-centered sacred milieu, though the verse describes the jewel’s power.
None; the verse describes the jewel’s extraordinary property of transmutation by contact with its radiance.