Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 60
न पूजां लप्स्यते लोके यथान्या देवयोषितः
na pūjāṃ lapsyate loke yathānyā devayoṣitaḥ
En ce monde, elle n’obtiendra ni honneur ni culte, comme les autres femmes célestes.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narrative style)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A contrast scene: celestial women receive offerings and garlands in a radiant shrine, while the Ābhīra’s daughter stands aside without offerings—visually expressing exclusion from customary worship.
FAQs
It underscores that one’s conduct and dharma determine worldly honor (pūjā); failing in the implied standard leads to loss of respect and auspicious standing.
The verse is embedded in Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya (Adhyāya 192), but this single line does not name the tīrtha explicitly; the surrounding verses of the chapter would provide the precise site.
No direct prescription (snāna, dāna, japa, vrata) appears in this line; it functions as a phala-style statement about the consequence of not meeting the implied dharmic/ritual expectation.