Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 40
सादुर्वृत्त्या परित्यज्य पतिधर्मं सनातनम् । स्वच्छंदचारिणी भूत्वामृतानिरयमुद्ययौ
sādurvṛttyā parityajya patidharmaṃ sanātanam | svacchaṃdacāriṇī bhūtvāmṛtānirayamudyayau
কিন্তু দুষ্ট আচৰণে সনাতন পতিধৰ্ম ত্যাগ কৰি, স্বেচ্ছাচাৰিণী হৈ, সি মৃত্যু বরণ কৰি নৰকলৈ উঠি গ’ল।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sage/audience
Scene: A woman turning away from the path of duty, stepping into shadow; the scene shifts from auspicious light to a grim ascent toward a hellish realm—dark clouds, fearful messengers, and a broken garland symbolizing lost virtue.
FAQs
Adharma—living by impulse and rejecting duty—leads to painful karmic results; dharma is presented as protective and sustaining.
The verse is ethical instruction within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī setting, not a direct tirtha-glorification line.
None; it is a statement of karmic consequence tied to dharmic conduct.