Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 14
सावित्र्युवाच । यस्मात्त्वया परित्यक्ता निर्दोषाहं पितामह । पितामहोऽसि मे नूनमद्यप्रभृति संगमे
sāvitryuvāca | yasmāttvayā parityaktā nirdoṣāhaṃ pitāmaha | pitāmaho'si me nūnamadyaprabhṛti saṃgame
Sāvitrī sprach: „Weil du mich, die Schuldlose, verstoßen hast, o Pitāmaha, sollst du mir von heute an in Dingen der Vereinigung wahrlich nur noch ein ‚Ahnvater‘ sein.“
Savitrī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pitāmaha (Brahmā)
Scene: Inside a yajña pavilion: Sāvitrī, dignified and wounded, addresses Brahmā (Pitāmaha) with stern resolve; priests and ritual fires witness the rupture.
FAQs
It affirms the ethical power of a righteous wife’s dharma: abandonment of the blameless invites a binding moral consequence, even for a creator-god.
This is the speech-act that powers the chapter’s mythic causation; the tīrtha context is supplied by the surrounding māhātmya.
None explicitly; it is a direct utterance inaugurating a curse tied to dharma and ritual circumstance.