Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 62
एवं विलपमानस्य मम सूत कुलोद्वह । आगताः सुहृदः सर्वे रुरुदुस्तेऽपि दुःखिताः
evaṃ vilapamānasya mama sūta kulodvaha | āgatāḥ suhṛdaḥ sarve ruruduste'pi duḥkhitāḥ
এইদৰে মই বিলাপ কৰি থাকোঁতে, হে সূত, কুলশ্ৰেষ্ঠ, মোৰ সকলো সুহৃদ আহি উপস্থিত হ’ল; তেওঁলোকো দুখিত হৈ কান্দিবলৈ ধৰিলে।
Sūta (framed narration with address to a ‘Sūta’ listener; exact interlocutors not recoverable from snippet alone)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sūta
Scene: A group of friends rush in toward the lamenting man; some raise hands to their faces, others kneel; the scene widens from intimate grief to communal mourning around the body.
FAQs
Dharma is upheld in community; in crisis, well-wishers gather and help move grief toward proper action.
Not specified in this verse.
Not explicitly; it leads into the preparation of the funeral pyre in the next verse.