Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 135
देवगन्धर्वयक्षाश्च हृष्यन्ते पुत्रजन्मनि । पञ्चत्वे तेऽपि शोचन्ति मन्दभाग्योऽस्मि पुत्रक
devagandharvayakṣāśca hṛṣyante putrajanmani | pañcatve te'pi śocanti mandabhāgyo'smi putraka
ദേവന്മാരും ഗന്ധർവന്മാരും യക്ഷന്മാരും പുത്രജന്മത്തിൽ ഹർഷിക്കുന്നു; അവൻ പഞ്ചത്വം (മരണം) പ്രാപിക്കുമ്പോൾ അവർ പോലും ദുഃഖിച്ച്— “പുത്രക, ഞാൻ മന്ദഭാഗ്യൻ” എന്നു പറയുന്നു.
Narrator within Revā-khaṇḍa (deductive; exact speaker not explicit in snippet)
Listener: Pāṇḍava (Yudhiṣṭhira addressed in this chapter’s dialogue layer)
Scene: A celestial assembly—devas, gandharvas, yakṣas—first celebrating a newborn with flowers and music, then the same beings mourning at a funeral pyre/cremation scene, hands raised in lament, underscoring impermanence.
FAQs
Even exalted beings are touched by saṃsāric grief; awareness of death (pañcatva) encourages dharmic living and inner detachment.
No particular tīrtha is mentioned in this verse; it supports the chapter’s moral discourse within the Revā-khaṇḍa.
None directly; it is a reflection on birth, death, and attachment.