Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 34
पितृगेहे तु या कन्या रजः पश्येदसंस्कृता । भ्रूणहा तत्पिता ज्ञेयो वृषली सापि कन्यका
pitṛgehe tu yā kanyā rajaḥ paśyedasaṃskṛtā | bhrūṇahā tatpitā jñeyo vṛṣalī sāpi kanyakā
পিতৃগৃহে যে কন্যা যথাযথ সংস্কার (বিবাহ) না হয়ে ঋতুস্রাব দেখে, তার পিতা ভ্রূণহন্তা সদৃশ জ্ঞেয়; এবং সেই কন্যাও ‘বৃষলী’ তুল্য গণ্য।
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A worried father in a traditional household setting, elders counseling, the daughter in a private chamber symbolically indicated (curtain/threshold), with a moralizing narrator presence; the atmosphere is admonitory rather than celebratory.
FAQs
The verse stresses the traditional duty of guardians to ensure timely life-cycle rites; neglect is portrayed as a grave moral failing.
It is part of Kāśī Khaṇḍa’s dharma instruction; the emphasis is ethical conduct within the Kāśī Māhātmya setting rather than a named micro-tīrtha.
A traditional insistence on completing appropriate saṃskāras (contextually, marriage-related consecration) in due time.