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
হে কুলশ্রেষ্ঠ সূত! আমি যখন এইভাবে বিলাপ করছিলাম, তখন আমার সকল বন্ধুরা সেখানে এল এবং তারাও দুঃখিত হয়ে কাঁদতে লাগল।
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.