Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 35
का त्वं वद महाभागे मम मन्मथवर्धनी । किं देवी वासुरी वा किं पन्नगी किं तु मानुषी
kā tvaṃ vada mahābhāge mama manmathavardhanī | kiṃ devī vāsurī vā kiṃ pannagī kiṃ tu mānuṣī
«Wer bist du? Sage es mir, o glückselige Frau — du, die in mir das Begehren Manmathas mehrt. Bist du eine Devī, oder eine Asura-Frau, oder eine Nāgī, oder bist du menschlich?»
Muni (the sage)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rambhā
Scene: A sage, visibly stirred, questions a radiant woman’s identity—goddess, asura, nāgī, or human—against a sacred grove backdrop.
FAQs
Purāṇas acknowledge the power of desire; vigilance and discernment are essential even for ascetics when confronted with alluring appearances.
The verse is within a tīrtha-glorification chapter, but the site is not named in this line.
No direct prescription; the verse sets up a moral-spiritual tension relevant to brahmacarya and restraint.