Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 59
यथाकथंचिदूढाऽथ पत्नी त्यक्तकुलाध्वगा । वृषलीपतिना तेन परदारापहारिणा
yathākathaṃcidūḍhā'tha patnī tyaktakulādhvagā | vṛṣalīpatinā tena paradārāpahāriṇā
പിന്നീട് എങ്ങനെയോ അവൻ കുലമാർഗം ഉപേക്ഷിച്ച ഒരു സ്ത്രീയെ ഭാര്യയായി സ്വീകരിച്ചു; അവൻ വൃഷലീ-പതിയായി മാറി, പരസ്ത്രീ-അപഹാരകനായി തീർന്നു।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka-ādi ṛṣis (frame)
Scene: A morally compromised marriage scene: the man taking a wife with a sense of social rupture; shadowy figures hint at later adultery and deceit.
FAQs
It condemns social and moral transgression—especially violating marital boundaries—as a marker of adharma leading to downfall.
The chapter belongs to Kāśī’s sacred narrative framework, but this verse itself is a character-description rather than a tīrtha-praise.
No ritual is prescribed here; it is an ethical censure within a purāṇic narrative.