Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 21
पूर्वकर्मविपाकेन स बालोऽपि च तत्सुतः । कुष्ठव्याधिसमाक्रांतः पितृमातृसुदुःखदः
pūrvakarmavipākena sa bālo'pi ca tatsutaḥ | kuṣṭhavyādhisamākrāṃtaḥ pitṛmātṛsuduḥkhadaḥ
পূৰ্বকৰ্মৰ বিপাকত সেই পুত্ৰ, শিশু হ’লেও, কুষ্ঠৰোগে আক্ৰান্ত হ’ল; পিতৃ-মাতৃৰ বাবে অতি দুখৰ কাৰণ হ’ল।
Sūta
Tirtha: कामिक-क्षेत्र (अस्पष्ट नाम)
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: राजकुल का बालक कुष्ठ-पीड़ित; माता-पिता शोकाकुल; राजमहल/आश्रम-परिसर में करुण वातावरण, वैद्य/सेवक दूर खड़े
FAQs
Suffering is framed through karma-vipāka, preparing the narrative ground for purification and healing through tīrtha and divine grace.
The Gomukha-tīrtha context continues; the child’s affliction becomes the catalyst for the tīrtha’s salvific fame.
None explicitly here; it sets up the need for a remedial sacred act (typically tīrtha-snāna) in the subsequent narrative.