Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 73
शिशुं पुत्रं समादाय कन्यामेकां च शोभनाम् । ततोऽहं भार्यया प्रोक्तो वानप्रस्थाश्रमे स्थितः
śiśuṃ putraṃ samādāya kanyāmekāṃ ca śobhanām | tato'haṃ bhāryayā prokto vānaprasthāśrame sthitaḥ
Aku menggendong putra kami yang masih bayi dan membawa serta seorang putri yang elok. Lalu istriku menasihatiku, dan aku pun menempatkan diri dalam āśrama vānaprastha (tahap hidup menyepi di hutan).
Unspecified first-person narrator
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A couple with two small children at the edge of a forest-hermitage setting; the husband poised for vānaprastha, the wife speaking with urgency and devotion, travel bundles and simple ascetic items visible.
FAQs
It frames renunciation within āśrama-dharma: spiritual progress can occur through an ordered life-stage (vānaprastha), not only abrupt abandonment.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse.
No explicit rite is stated; the prescription is the dharmic mode of life—vānaprastha-āśrama.