Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 41
एवंभूता भवंत्येव मातापितृविवर्जिताः । निर्गुणा अकुलीनाश्च कर्मभ्रष्टा निरंकुशाः
evaṃbhūtā bhavaṃtyeva mātāpitṛvivarjitāḥ | nirguṇā akulīnāśca karmabhraṣṭā niraṃkuśāḥ
De telles gens, en vérité, deviennent comme privés de mère et de père : sans vertus, sans noble lignée, déchus des devoirs justes et sans frein.
Unspecified character (continuing narrative speaker; not stated in snippet)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A moralizing tableau: figures depicted as drifting without guidance—youths ignoring elders—contrasted with a steady ascetic or teacher figure in the background, suggesting the remedy.
FAQs
It warns against abandoning restraint and righteous conduct, portraying such a fall as a loss of grounding, virtue, and dharmic orientation.
Kāśī is the textual setting; this verse itself is moral commentary rather than tīrtha-glorification.
None; it is an ethical characterization.