Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 13
एवं वृष्टेः क्षये जाते नष्टे धर्मपथे तथा । लोकेऽस्मिन्नस्थिसंघातैः पूरिते भस्मना वृते
evaṃ vṛṣṭeḥ kṣaye jāte naṣṭe dharmapathe tathā | loke'sminnasthisaṃghātaiḥ pūrite bhasmanā vṛte
এভাবে বৃষ্টি ক্ষীণ হয়ে গেলে এবং ধর্মপথ লুপ্ত হলে, এই জগৎ অস্থির স্তূপে পূর্ণ হয়ে উঠল এবং ভস্মে আচ্ছন্ন হল।
Skanda (deduced; Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narration style)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A grey landscape carpeted with ash; scattered bone heaps; a lone survivor with cloth over mouth; distant ruined huts under a blank sky.
FAQs
The Purāṇic worldview links ethical decline with cosmic suffering; dharma is portrayed as the sustaining ‘path’ whose loss leads to widespread ruin.
No single tīrtha is named in the verse; it serves as the narrative preface within the Tīrthamāhātmya context.
None explicitly; the verse diagnoses conditions that later motivate religious action.
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