Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 3
अवंतीविषये कश्चिद्ब्राह्मणो मंदराह्वयः । बभूव विषयारामः स्त्रीजितो धनसंग्रही
avaṃtīviṣaye kaścidbrāhmaṇo maṃdarāhvayaḥ | babhūva viṣayārāmaḥ strījito dhanasaṃgrahī
अवन्ती देश में मंदर नाम का एक ब्राह्मण था। वह विषय-भोगों में रमता, स्त्रियों के वश में पड़कर धन-संचय में ही लगा रहता था।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; specific speaker not explicit in this snippet)
Tirtha: Āvantya (Ujjayinī-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A brāhmaṇa in Avanti, surrounded by wealth and sensual comforts, turning away from Vedic restraint; the sacred city’s distant temples/river remain as a silent backdrop.
FAQs
It warns that attachment to pleasures and greed can erode a brāhmaṇa’s dharmic conduct and inner freedom.
The verse situates the narrative in Avanti (Ujjayinī region), a major sacred landscape often associated with Śaiva holiness, though no single tirtha is named in this line.
None here; it is a character-description setting up a dharma narrative.