Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 29
स कृत्रिमोद्भूतकलत्रभावः प्रयुक्तकर्णाभरणांगरागः । स्निग्धाञ्जनाक्षः स्पृहणीयरूपो बभूव सद्यः प्रमदोत्तमाभः
sa kṛtrimodbhūtakalatrabhāvaḥ prayuktakarṇābharaṇāṃgarāgaḥ | snigdhāñjanākṣaḥ spṛhaṇīyarūpo babhūva sadyaḥ pramadottamābhaḥ
وبهيئةٍ مصطنعة كهيئة الزوجة—وقد زُيّنت أذناه بالحُليّ، ودُهِن جسده بالزينة، وكُحِّلت عيناه بكحلٍ ناعم—غدا في الحال جميلًا مرغوبًا، كفتاةٍ فاضلة الحسن.
Narrator
Scene: Close-up, poetic tableau: the disguised youth with earrings, fragrant unguents, collyrium-darkened eyes, and an alluring, newly fashioned feminine grace.
FAQs
Outer beauty and identity can be crafted and deceiving; Purāṇic narratives often use such scenes to point toward discernment and inner truth.
No tīrtha is referenced in this verse.
None; the verse is descriptive (ornaments, unguents, collyrium).