Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 35
अन्योन्यं मैथुनं चक्रुः कामबाणप्रपीडिताः । कुष्ठिनं व्याधितं वापि स्थविरं व्यंगमेव च । अप्येताः पुरुषाभावे मन्यंते पंचसायकम्
anyonyaṃ maithunaṃ cakruḥ kāmabāṇaprapīḍitāḥ | kuṣṭhinaṃ vyādhitaṃ vāpi sthaviraṃ vyaṃgameva ca | apyetāḥ puruṣābhāve manyaṃte paṃcasāyakam
مُعَذَّباتٍ بسهام كاما (ذو السهام الخمسة)، يجامعنَ بعضُهُنَّ بعضًا؛ أو يجامعنَ الأبرصَ أو المريضَ أو الشيخَ، بل حتى المُقعَدَ. حقًّا، إذا غاب الرجلُ اللائقُ ظللنَ يَرَيْنَ «ذَا السهام الخمسة» كاما لا يُقاوَم.
Garuḍa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Puruṣottama (Viṣṇu as addressee)
Scene: Garuḍa describes kāma’s arrows forcing people into degrading unions; the imagery is meant to repel and warn, not titillate—best rendered symbolically (Kāma with five arrows, minds ensnared).
FAQs
Uncontrolled desire degrades discernment; hence restraint and purity are upheld as higher dharma.
No site is named; the verse is a moral-psychological argument within the chapter’s larger sacred narrative.
None; it functions as a cautionary illustration against kāma.