[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 4.3.67.3 # Skandapurana 4.3.67.3 Skandapurāṇa 4.3.67.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.3.67.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.3) sākṣātkiṃvāḍavāgnirvā mūrtyā vai tapyate tapaḥ .. sthāṇuvanniścalataraṃ nirmalaṃ sanmano yathā .. 4.1.3.30 .. athavā sarva tejāṃsi śritvemāṃ brāhmaṇīṃ tanum .. śīlayaṃti paraṃ dhāma śātaṃśāṃta padāptaye .. 31 .. tapanastapyate'tyarthaṃ dahanopi hi dahyate .. yattīvratapasādyāpi capalā'capalābhavat .. 32 .. yasyāśrame 'tra dṛśyaṃte hiṃsrā api samaṃtataḥ .. sattvarūpā amī sattvāstyaktvā vairaṃ svabhāvajam .. 33 .. śuṃḍādaṃḍena karaṭiḥ siṃhaṃ kaṃḍūyate'bhayaḥ .. aṣṭāpadāṃke svapiti kesarī kesarodbhaṭaḥ .. 34 .. sūkaraḥ stabdharomāpi vihāya nijayūthakam .. caredvanaśunāṃ madhye mustānyastekṣaṇobalī .. 35 .. bhūdāropi na bhūdāraṃ tathākuryādyathā'nyataḥ .. sarvā liṃgamayī kāśī yatastadbhītiyaṃtritaḥ .. 36 .. kroḍīkṛtya kroḍapotaṃ tarakṣuḥ krīḍayatyaho .. śārdūlabālānutsārya śārdūlīmeṇapotakaḥ .. 37 .. calatpucchotha pibati phenilenānanena vai .. svapaṃtaṃ lomaśaṃ bhallaṃ vānaraścaladaṃguliḥ..38.. yūkā saṃvīkṣyavīkṣyaiva bhakṣayeddaṃtakoṭibhiḥ .. golāṃgūlāraktamukhānīlāṃ gā yūthathanāyakāḥ..39.. jātisvabhāvamātsaryaṃ tyaktvaikatra ramaṃti ca .. śaśāḥ krīḍaṃti ca vṛkaistaiḥ pṛṣṭhaluṃṭhanairmuhuḥ..4.1.3.40.. ākhuścākhubhujaḥ karṇaṃ kaṃḍūyeta calānanaḥ .. mayūrapucchapuṭago nidrātyotuḥ sukhādhikam .. 41 .. svakaṃṭhaṃ gharṣayatyeva kekikaṃṭhe bhujaṃgamaḥ .. bhujaṃgamaphaṇāpṛṣṭhe nakulaḥ svakulocitam .. 42 .. vairaṃ parityajya luṭhedutplutyotplutya līlayā .. ālokya mūṣakaṃ sarpaścaraṃtaṃ vadanāgrataḥ .. 43 .. kṣudhāṃdhopi na gṛhṇāti sopi tasmādbibheti no .. > Is it truly the submarine fire itself performing austerity in bodily form, / as motionless as a pillar, pure like the mind of the virtuous? / Or rather, having resorted to this brahminical body, do all splendors / cultivate the supreme abode to attain the state of absolute peace? / The sun burns intensely, and the fire itself is scorched, / through whose fierce austerity even the flickering \[lightning\] has become steady to this day! / In whose hermitage even beasts of prey are seen all around, / their forms turned gentle, having abandoned their inborn enmity: / The elephant fearlessly scratches the lion with its trunk; / the lion with its noble mane sleeps in the lap of the śarabha; / the boar, though his bristles stand on end, having left his herd, / moves about amidst the wild dogs, his gaze fixed on mustā grass, full of strength; / even the boar does not root up the earth as he does elsewhere, / restrained by fear because all of Kāśī is made of the liṅga; / taking a young pig onto its lap, oh, the hyena fondles it; / brushing aside the tiger cubs, a young fawn, / wagging its tail, drinks with frothy mouth from the tigress; / while a hairy bear sleeps, a monkey with restless fingers / seeks out lice again and again and eats them with the tips of his teeth; / the troop-leading baboons, black-bodied with red faces, / abandon the enmity natural to their species and disport together in one place; / hares frolic with wolves, continually rolling over their backs; / a mouse, its face twitching, scratches the ear of the cat; / curled in the train of a peacock's tail, a cat sleeps most peacefully; / a serpent rubs its throat against the throat of a peacock; / leaping and springing playfully, the mongoose rolls / on the back of the serpent's hood, abandoning the enmity natural to its race; / seeing a mouse moving right before its mouth, / the serpent, though blinded by hunger, does not seize it, nor does the mouse fear it; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.3.67.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.2) - [Next: 4.3.67.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.4) - [Up: 4.3.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.3.67.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.3.67.3) · Pramāṇa