Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 33
शक्रोमि पापिनो देव मन्नियोगेऽन्यमादिश । जगदाधारूपा हि त्वयेशोक्ताः पतिव्रताः
śakromi pāpino deva manniyoge'nyamādiśa | jagadādhārūpā hi tvayeśoktāḥ pativratāḥ
«يا إلهي، لا أقدر على هذا الآثم؛ فمُرْ غيري ممّن هم تحت أمري. فإنّ النساءَ الباتيفراتا، كما أعلنتَ أنتَ يا ربّ، هنّ حقًّا دعامةُ العالم».
Yama
Listener: Śiva
Scene: Yama petitions Śiva: ‘I cannot handle this sinner; appoint another.’ He then praises pativratā women as the world’s support—visualized as luminous women standing like protective pillars behind the cosmic order.
FAQs
Pativratā-dharma is portrayed as a pillar of social and cosmic order; violating it destabilizes the world and demands higher divine intervention.
No specific site is mentioned; the verse praises the dharmic principle of pativratā as world-supporting.
None; it is doctrinal praise of pativratā-dharma and a request for administrative action.