Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 27
नैतत्पुत्रोद्भवं दुःखं तथा मां बाधते ह्रदि । यथेदं मानुषे गर्भे संवासो मानुषं प्रति
naitatputrodbhavaṃ duḥkhaṃ tathā māṃ bādhate hradi | yathedaṃ mānuṣe garbhe saṃvāso mānuṣaṃ prati
পুত্রপ্রসবের দুঃখ আমার হৃদয়কে ততটা পীড়া দেয় না, যতটা দেয় এই—মানবগর্ভে বাস করে মানব-অবস্থায় আবদ্ধ হওয়া।
Revatī (contextual, continuing her lament)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A grief-stricken woman speaks inwardly, contrasting ordinary maternal sorrow with the deeper anguish of being bound to human gestation and condition; the sacred kṣetra looms as her unspoken refuge.
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Human embodiment is portrayed as heavy with limitation; the passage motivates seeking purity through dharma, vrata, and tīrtha.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; the tīrtha-glory is contextual to the surrounding Tīrthamāhātmya.
No direct prescription in this shloka.
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