Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 40
नाहं तोयं प्रदास्यामि स्वपुत्रस्य कथंचन । भवद्भिः प्रेरितोऽप्येवं तथान्यैरपि बांधवैः
nāhaṃ toyaṃ pradāsyāmi svaputrasya kathaṃcana | bhavadbhiḥ prerito'pyevaṃ tathānyairapi bāṃdhavaiḥ
«لن أقدّم ماءً، ولو قطرةً واحدة، لابني أبدًا وتحت أيّ حال؛ ولو حثثتموني أنتم، وكذلك سائر الأقارب.»
A bereaved father (contextual narrative figure; name not stated in this snippet)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Not explicit
Scene: Śeṣa (or the speaking figure) stands resolute amid nāgas and kin, hand raised in refusal, water-vessel present but withheld; faces show tension between ritual duty and grief-driven justice.
FAQs
Grief and moral outrage can harden a person against even customary acts of offering; the verse frames a dharmic conflict driven by perceived injustice.
The wider passage belongs to the Tīrthamāhātmya around Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (named explicitly in later verses of this unit).
Udaka/toya—ritual water offered as a libation (often connected with śrāddha/ancestral or funerary observance)—is referenced, though here it is refused.
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