Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 27
स्वभावतोऽल्पसत्त्वानां जघनानि विसुस्रुवुः । श्रूयते चाप्ययं श्लोकः पुराणप्रथितः क्षितौ
svabhāvato'lpasattvānāṃ jaghanāni visusruvuḥ | śrūyate cāpyayaṃ ślokaḥ purāṇaprathitaḥ kṣitau
સ્વભાવથી જ અલ્પસત્ત્વવાળાઓના નિતંબ-પ્રદેશ ડગમગવા લાગ્યા અને તેઓ અસ્થિર થયા. તેમજ પુરાણપ્રસિદ્ધ આ શ્લોક પૃથ્વી પર પણ સાંભળવામાં આવે છે.
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya; exact speaker not explicit in the snippet)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame audience)
Scene: A proverbial, almost emblematic scene: women of ‘alpa-sattva’ swaying, with a narrator’s voice invoking a ‘Purāṇa-prathita’ verse—half narrative, half aphorism.
FAQs
It cautions that lack of inner steadiness (sattva) leads to loss of restraint; Dharma requires self-control.
The broader context is Prabhāsakṣetra (Prabhāsa), though this verse itself is a moral observation within the Māhātmya narrative.
No direct rite is prescribed here; it functions as an ethical maxim within the sacred narrative.
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