Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 48
यदानीता सुतरुणी परहर्म्योषिता तया । अन्येषामपि विप्राणां संति नार्यो ह्यनेकशः
yadānītā sutaruṇī paraharmyoṣitā tayā | anyeṣāmapi viprāṇāṃ saṃti nāryo hyanekaśaḥ
«لأنها أعادت فتاةً غايةً في الصِّغر، كانت قد صارت زوجةً لرجلٍ آخر. ولدى سائر البرهمة أيضًا نساءٌ كثيرات (في أحوالٍ مماثلة).»
Narrator reporting the citizens’ speech (speaker within verse: townspeople)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A tense village/assembly scene: brāhmaṇas whispering and pointing toward a returned young woman; the father’s household in the background; expressions of suspicion and moral outrage.
FAQs
Purāṇic dharma stresses protecting social and household order; actions that blur boundaries are portrayed as sources of communal anxiety and disorder.
The tīrtha setting is implicit in the Tīrthamāhātmya section, but no specific place-name appears in this shloka.
No ritual instruction is stated here.