Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 66
विधवानां स्तना यद्वद्धृद्येव विलयंति च । उन्नम्योन्नम्य तत्रोच्चैस्तद्वत्खलमनोरथाः
vidhavānāṃ stanā yadvaddhṛdyeva vilayaṃti ca | unnamyonnamya tatroccaistadvatkhalamanorathāḥ
Just as a widow’s breasts rise again and again and then sink back into the chest, so too do the wicked one’s ambitions—lifting up high repeatedly, only to collapse.
Vyāsa (narrative voice; speaker not explicitly marked in this verse)
Scene: A didactic tableau: a proud, scheming figure climbing a high platform repeatedly, each time slipping and falling; in the background, the luminous silhouette of Kāśī as the steady, unshaken ideal.
FAQs
Ambitions rooted in adharma repeatedly rise but cannot sustain themselves; they inevitably collapse.
No specific tīrtha is named; it serves as a moral reflection in the Kāśīkhaṇḍa context.
None.