Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 120
अपरं च क्षमं वाक्यं यत्त्वां वच्मि विहंगम । अयं दुःखेन संयुक्तः साधयिष्यति पावकम् । अहमेनमनुद्धृत्य कस्माद्गच्छामि चाश्रमम्
aparaṃ ca kṣamaṃ vākyaṃ yattvāṃ vacmi vihaṃgama | ayaṃ duḥkhena saṃyuktaḥ sādhayiṣyati pāvakam | ahamenamanuddhṛtya kasmādgacchāmi cāśramam
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Mārkaṇḍeya (deduced from immediate narrative context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: vihangama (Baka, the bird)
Scene: A sage addresses a bird-messenger with calm insistence, pointing toward a sorrow-stricken man preparing a fire; the sage refuses to return to the hermitage until rescue is secured.
FAQs
Compassionate dharma requires intervening to save a despairing person, even before returning to one’s own religious duties.
The verse sits within the Tīrthamāhātmya stream of Nāgarakhaṇḍa; this specific line emphasizes dharma-in-action within the pilgrimage narrative rather than naming a single tīrtha.
None directly; it mentions an intended act of entering fire (self-immolation) which the speaker seeks to prevent.
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