Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 93
कुतस्त्वमनुसंप्राप्तो वनेऽस्मिञ्जनवर्जिते । एकाकी सुकुमारांगः पदातिः श्रमविह्वलः
kutastvamanusaṃprāpto vane'smiñjanavarjite | ekākī sukumārāṃgaḥ padātiḥ śramavihvalaḥ
From where have you come into this forest, so devoid of people? All alone, of delicate limbs, traveling on foot, you appear overcome by weariness.
Tāpasas (forest ascetics)
Type: kshetra
Scene: An ascetic or forest-dweller addresses a lone, weary, delicate-limbed traveler/king on a deserted woodland track; the question is compassionate yet probing.
FAQs
The verse frames the forest as a space of tapas (austerity) and detachment, where worldly travel and royal identity are secondary to spiritual purpose.
The immediate verse sets the narrative scene in a peopleless forest within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s tīrtha-context; the specific tīrtha is developed in the surrounding passage of the Tīrthamāhātmya.
None directly; it is a narrative inquiry that prepares for later tīrtha-related instructions.
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