Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 23
कन्योवाच । सत्यमेतन्महाभाग नास्ति दारपरिग्रहः । तस्यर्षेः किं तु संजाता यथा तन्मेऽवधारय
kanyovāca | satyametanmahābhāga nāsti dāraparigrahaḥ | tasyarṣeḥ kiṃ tu saṃjātā yathā tanme'vadhāraya
কন্যাই ক’লে: “হে মহাভাগ, ই সত্য—তেওঁ পত্নী-গ্ৰহণ কৰি গৃহস্থ ধৰ্ম লোৱা নাই। তথাপি মই সেই ঋষিৰ পৰা জন্ম লৈছোঁ; কেনেকৈ সেয়া ঘটিল, মোৰ কথাৰে বুজি লোৱা।”
Kanyā (Phalavatī)
Listener: Unnamed interlocutor (addressed as mahābhāga)
Scene: A maiden, composed and truthful, addresses a noble interlocutor in a hermitage setting, beginning the disclosure of her unusual birth from a celibate sage.
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives often reconcile vows and extraordinary births by revealing hidden causes; dharma is understood through full context.
Not specified in this verse; it prepares the etiological account within the chapter’s tīrtha framework.
None; it introduces an explanatory backstory.
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