Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 51
तस्मादेतन्महाक्षेत्रं संप्राप्य त्वां व्यवस्थितम् । परलोकाय संत्यज्य कथं गच्छाम्यहं गृहम्
tasmādetanmahākṣetraṃ saṃprāpya tvāṃ vyavasthitam | paralokāya saṃtyajya kathaṃ gacchāmyahaṃ gṛham
Da wir nun diese große heilige Region erreicht haben und ich sehe, dass du für das Jenseits entschlossen bist, wie kann ich dich verlassen und nach Hause zurückkehren?
The Brahmin’s wife (devoted wife, speaking to her husband)
Type: kshetra
Listener: husband (resolved for paraloka)
Scene: In a vast sacred landscape, the wife gestures toward the kṣetra around them, questioning how she could return home when her husband is fixed on the beyond; the scene carries the gravity of a final decision.
FAQs
True dharma in a tīrtha is tested through loyalty, compassion, and steadfast commitment, not merely physical departure or vows.
A “mahākṣetra” within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya is being praised; the verse highlights the sanctity of the place as a setting for decisive spiritual resolve.
No explicit ritual is prescribed here; the focus is on the ethical-spiritual resolve associated with staying in a sacred kṣetra.