Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 29
स कृत्रिमोद्भूतकलत्रभावः प्रयुक्तकर्णाभरणांगरागः । स्निग्धाञ्जनाक्षः स्पृहणीयरूपो बभूव सद्यः प्रमदोत्तमाभः
sa kṛtrimodbhūtakalatrabhāvaḥ prayuktakarṇābharaṇāṃgarāgaḥ | snigdhāñjanākṣaḥ spṛhaṇīyarūpo babhūva sadyaḥ pramadottamābhaḥ
সে কৃত্রিমভাবে স্ত্রীসুলভ ভাব ধারণ করে, কানে অলংকার, দেহে প্রসাধন, আর চোখে মসৃণ অঞ্জন লাগিয়ে, সঙ্গে সঙ্গে মনোহর ও আকাঙ্ক্ষিত—উত্তম তরুণীর মতো—দেখাতে লাগল।
Narrator
Scene: Close-up, poetic tableau: the disguised youth with earrings, fragrant unguents, collyrium-darkened eyes, and an alluring, newly fashioned feminine grace.
FAQs
Outer beauty and identity can be crafted and deceiving; Purāṇic narratives often use such scenes to point toward discernment and inner truth.
No tīrtha is referenced in this verse.
None; the verse is descriptive (ornaments, unguents, collyrium).