Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 23
कन्योवाच । सत्यमेतन्महाभाग नास्ति दारपरिग्रहः । तस्यर्षेः किं तु संजाता यथा तन्मेऽवधारय
kanyovāca | satyametanmahābhāga nāsti dāraparigrahaḥ | tasyarṣeḥ kiṃ tu saṃjātā yathā tanme'vadhāraya
Das Mädchen sprach: „Wahr ist es, o Edler: Er hat keine Gattin genommen. Und doch bin ich wahrhaft von jenem Rishi geboren; vernimm von mir, wie es dazu kam.“
Kanyā (Phalavatī)
Listener: Unnamed interlocutor (addressed as mahābhāga)
Scene: A maiden, composed and truthful, addresses a noble interlocutor in a hermitage setting, beginning the disclosure of her unusual birth from a celibate sage.
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives often reconcile vows and extraordinary births by revealing hidden causes; dharma is understood through full context.
Not specified in this verse; it prepares the etiological account within the chapter’s tīrtha framework.
None; it introduces an explanatory backstory.