Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 67
किं त्वया न श्रुतं लोके अवध्याः सर्वथा स्त्रियः । किं तु तुभ्यं गुणो ह्यस्ति दहने पवनेरितः
kiṃ tvayā na śrutaṃ loke avadhyāḥ sarvathā striyaḥ | kiṃ tu tubhyaṃ guṇo hyasti dahane pavaneritaḥ
Have you not heard what is said in the world—that women are in every way not to be slain? Yet what ‘virtue’ is there in you, O Fire, when you burn only as driven by the wind?
Dānava women (collective lament; addressing Fire)
Scene: Personified Agni leans with the wind, flames bending sideways; a woman points to the wind as if exposing Agni’s lack of independent virtue; the scene feels like a courtroom of dharma amid disaster.
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Dharma includes protecting the vulnerable; violence without discernment is portrayed as mindless and meritless.
No specific tīrtha; the verse is an ethical statement within the Revā Khaṇḍa.
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