Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 16
न देवी न च गन्धर्वी नासुरी न च पन्नगी । तादृग्रूपा महाभागा यादृशी सा सुमध्यमा
na devī na ca gandharvī nāsurī na ca pannagī | tādṛgrūpā mahābhāgā yādṛśī sā sumadhyamā
لم تكن إلهةً، ولا فتاةً من الغاندارفات، ولا أسوريةً، ولا امرأةً من الناغات؛ ومع ذلك فإن تلك السعيدة ذات الخصر النحيل كانت تملك جمالًا لا يضاهيها فيه أحدٌ منهنّ.
Sūta
Type: kshetra
Scene: A poetic portrait: Mādhavī standing in a garden pavilion, her beauty contrasted with faint, stylized silhouettes of a devī, gandharvī, asurī, and nāgī in the background—each outshone by her radiance; emphasis on ‘sumadhyamā’ (slender waist).
FAQs
Purāṇas often use exalted comparisons to signal extraordinary destiny and dharmic consequence within a sacred-place narrative.
Not named in this verse; it serves the chapter’s larger kṣetra-centered māhātmya.
None.