Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 7
श्रीराम उवाच । का त्वं शुभे कस्य परिग्रहो वा केनावधूता विजने निरस्ता । मुष्टं धनं केन च तावकीनमाचक्ष्व मातः सकलं ममाग्रे
śrīrāma uvāca | kā tvaṃ śubhe kasya parigraho vā kenāvadhūtā vijane nirastā | muṣṭaṃ dhanaṃ kena ca tāvakīnamācakṣva mātaḥ sakalaṃ mamāgre
Śrī Rāma said: “O auspicious lady, who are you, and whose wife are you? By whom have you been cast off and abandoned in this lonely place? And by whom has your handful of wealth been taken? Tell me, O mother—declare everything before me.”
Śrī Rāma
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Scene: Rāma in forest attire stands before an auspicious yet distressed woman in a lonely woodland; his posture is gentle, questioning, protective; sparse trees, hermitage-path, subdued light.
FAQs
Dharma begins with compassionate inquiry and protection of the distressed, treating the vulnerable with reverence (“mātaḥ”).
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it occurs within the Dharmāraṇya Khaṇḍa context.
None is stated in this verse; it is a moral-dialogue passage.