Skanda Purana — Vishnu Khanda, Shloka 99
रैभ्य उवाच । कुरूपतां व्रज क्षिप्रं या त्वं सौंदर्यगर्विता । समागता तपोविघ्नहेतवे मम सन्निधौ
raibhya uvāca | kurūpatāṃ vraja kṣipraṃ yā tvaṃ sauṃdaryagarvitā | samāgatā tapovighnahetave mama sannidhau
Raibhya dit : « Va sur-le-champ vers la laideur, toi qui t’enorgueillis de ta beauté, car tu es venue en ma présence comme cause d’entrave à mes austérités. »
Raibhya (sage)
Tirtha: Ayodhyā-kṣetra (Raibhya-āśrama episode)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Raibhya Ṛṣi pronounces a curse: his hand raised, face stern; the maiden’s proud posture begins to falter as the word ‘kurūpatā’ (ugliness) is declared; hermitage flora frames the moral drama.
FAQs
Pride in beauty and intentional disturbance of tapas are portrayed as adharma; spiritual discipline demands restraint and reverence toward sages.
Ayodhyā is the setting; the specific tīrtha that restores her state is named in the subsequent verses.
None here; the verse is a direct imprecation (śāpa) that leads to a later prescribed tīrtha-snān.