Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 29
स कृत्रिमोद्भूतकलत्रभावः प्रयुक्तकर्णाभरणांगरागः । स्निग्धाञ्जनाक्षः स्पृहणीयरूपो बभूव सद्यः प्रमदोत्तमाभः
sa kṛtrimodbhūtakalatrabhāvaḥ prayuktakarṇābharaṇāṃgarāgaḥ | snigdhāñjanākṣaḥ spṛhaṇīyarūpo babhūva sadyaḥ pramadottamābhaḥ
वह कृत्रिम रूप से पत्नी-सदृश भाव धारण किए, कानों में आभूषण, अंगों पर लेप, और नेत्रों में स्निग्ध अंजन लगाए हुए, तुरंत ही मनोहर और वांछनीय—उत्तम युवती-सा—दिखने लगा।
Narrator
Scene: Close-up, poetic tableau: the disguised youth with earrings, fragrant unguents, collyrium-darkened eyes, and an alluring, newly fashioned feminine grace.
FAQs
Outer beauty and identity can be crafted and deceiving; Purāṇic narratives often use such scenes to point toward discernment and inner truth.
No tīrtha is referenced in this verse.
None; the verse is descriptive (ornaments, unguents, collyrium).