Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 58
स्वामिन्भक्तपरित्यागः सर्वशास्त्रेषु गर्हितः । त्यजताऽस्मान्वने वीर धर्मो नावेक्षितस्त्वया
svāminbhaktaparityāgaḥ sarvaśāstreṣu garhitaḥ | tyajatā'smānvane vīra dharmo nāvekṣitastvayā
«Ô Maître, abandonner les dévots est blâmé dans tous les śāstras. Ô héros—quand tu nous as laissées dans la forêt, tu n’as nullement observé le dharma.»
Vraja women (gopīs), quoted within Prahlāda’s narration
Tirtha: Vraja-vana (evoked) / Dvārakā (frame)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Gopīs cite śāstra as witness, accusing Krishna of abandoning devotees when he left them in the forest; the scene feels like a plaintive petition, with hands raised as if taking oath before dharma itself.
FAQs
The Lord is expected to be bhakta-vatsala; the devotee’s trust rests on the scripture-backed ideal that God does not forsake sincere devotees.
Dvārakā-māhātmya provides the setting; the “forest” evokes the Vraja region’s remembered spaces of līlā and separation.
None explicitly; the verse cites śāstric authority as moral-theological guidance.