Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 23
अजाविकास्तथा पादं नार्यः सर्वास्तथैव च । वेदाध्ययनसंपन्नाः प्रतिग्रहविवर्जिताः । शापानुग्रहकृत्येषु समर्थाः संभवंति च
ajāvikāstathā pādaṃ nāryaḥ sarvāstathaiva ca | vedādhyayanasaṃpannāḥ pratigrahavivarjitāḥ | śāpānugrahakṛtyeṣu samarthāḥ saṃbhavaṃti ca
Ebenso geben Ziegen und Schafe ihren Ertrag in voller Fülle; und alle Frauen sind gleichermaßen so. Mit dem Studium der Veden ausgestattet und frei vom Annehmen von Gaben, sind die Menschen auch zu Handlungen des Fluchens und Segnens befähigt.
Skanda (deduced; exact speaker not explicit in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A learned community: sages reciting Veda under trees near a shrine; householders living simply; a scene of a righteous blessing being bestowed, with a restrained, luminous aura around the speaker; goats and sheep in the foreground symbolizing sufficiency.
FAQs
Purity, self-restraint, and Vedic discipline are portrayed as sources of spiritual potency—capable of blessing or correcting through austere speech.
This is part of the broader sacred-region/yuga description in Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya; no specific tīrtha is named in this verse.
An ethical discipline is implied: abstaining from pratigraha (gift-acceptance) and cultivating Vedic study; no explicit rite is detailed.