Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 19
त्वं कुमार्यपि संप्राप्ता ऋतुकालं विगर्हिता । तेन दोषं त्वमापन्ना नान्यदस्तीह कारणम्
tvaṃ kumāryapi saṃprāptā ṛtukālaṃ vigarhitā | tena doṣaṃ tvamāpannā nānyadastīha kāraṇam
«مع أنكِ ما زلتِ عذراءَ غيرَ متزوّجة، فقد بلغْتِ زمنَ الحيض وتُرِكتِ بلا رعايةٍ ولا تدبير؛ فبذلك لَحِقَكِ عيبٌ. ولا سببَ غيرُ هذا هنا.»
Indra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dīrghakanyā
Scene: Indra explains the single fault: the maiden has reached menstruation while still unmarried and neglected, thus incurring a doṣa; the tone is explanatory yet heavy with social sorrow.
FAQs
It presents dharma as social-sacral responsibility: neglect of timely life-stage duties is treated as a disorder requiring correction, not merely personal blame.
The verse is part of a tīrtha-māhātmya chapter in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa; the site name is not explicit in this isolated line.
No direct rite is prescribed here; it diagnoses the ‘doṣa’ and sets up the corrective action described in subsequent verses.