Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
न तथा स्त्रीषु नो भोगे नाश्वयाने न वारणे । तस्याभूदनुरागश्च यथा मृगविमर्द्दने
na tathā strīṣu no bhoge nāśvayāne na vāraṇe | tasyābhūdanurāgaśca yathā mṛgavimarddane
He was not so attached to women or pleasures, nor to horses and vehicles, nor to elephants; his passion was for crushing down the deer in the hunt.
Paulastya
Tirtha: Arbuda
Type: peak
Listener: Royal interlocutor (implied by संबोधन)
Scene: A psychological portrait: the king is indifferent to typical royal pleasures, yet intensely attached to the violence of the hunt—an inversion of expected ‘renunciation’.
FAQs
Attachment can shift from sensual luxury to violence; Purāṇic dharma critiques any passion that harms beings and clouds discernment.
Indirectly Kapilā Tīrtha, since the story is being built to show the transformative power of the tīrtha.
None; the verse diagnoses the king’s dominant attachment.