Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 25
इत्थं विनिश्चित्य च भूमिपालः सक्तः सपत्नीषु तदात्मजेषु । आहूय सूतं निजदारपुत्रौ निर्वापयामास रथेन दूरम्
itthaṃ viniścitya ca bhūmipālaḥ saktaḥ sapatnīṣu tadātmajeṣu | āhūya sūtaṃ nijadāraputrau nirvāpayāmāsa rathena dūram
وهكذا بعدما حسم الملك أمره—وقد تعلّق بضرائرِه وأبنائهنّ—استدعى السائق، وأمر أن تُساق زوجته وابنه بعيدًا على مركبةٍ ثم تُتركا مهجورين.
Narrator (likely the Purāṇic storyteller; exact speaker not in snippet)
Scene: A chariot at palace gates; the king orders the charioteer; a distressed wife holds her child; the chariot departs toward distant wilderness as courtiers watch in silence.
FAQs
Attachment and partiality can push a ruler into adharma, harming the innocent and intensifying karmic consequences.
No holy site is referenced; this is a moral-narrative turn within the chapter.
None; the verse describes an act of banishment, not a ritual.