Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 49
जीवहीनो यथा देही क्षणादशुचितां व्रजेत् । भर्तृहीना तथा योषित्सुस्नाताप्य शुचिः सदा
jīvahīno yathā dehī kṣaṇādaśucitāṃ vrajet | bhartṛhīnā tathā yoṣitsusnātāpya śuciḥ sadā
Así como un cuerpo, privado de vida, al instante se vuelve impuro, así también una mujer sin su esposo es tenida por impura—aunque se haya bañado bien—en todo tiempo, según esta afirmación de dharma.
Deductively: Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating within Brāhma Khaṇḍa context
Scene: A didactic assembly where a dharma-speaker illustrates impurity by contrasting a lifeless body with a bathed woman, emphasizing the text’s ritual-status analogy rather than a pilgrimage scene.
FAQs
It frames purity/impurity (śauca/aśauca) through a dharma lens, intensifying the ideal of marital fidelity as a religious norm.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it appears within Dharmāraṇya’s didactic setting rather than a direct site-glorification line.
Bathing (snāna) is referenced, but the verse is not a procedural injunction; it is a doctrinal statement about perceived purity.