Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 58
निश्वस्य संवृतो विप्रास्तां वीक्ष्योद्वाहितां सुताम् । शशाप कुपितो भद्र मां तदानीं स भार्गवः
niśvasya saṃvṛto viprāstāṃ vīkṣyodvāhitāṃ sutām | śaśāpa kupito bhadra māṃ tadānīṃ sa bhārgavaḥ
ആഴത്തിൽ നിശ്വസിച്ച് ആ ബ്രാഹ്മണൻ ‘വിവാഹിതയായ’ തന്റെ പുത്രിയെ കണ്ടു ക്രുദ്ധനായി; ഹേ ഭദ്രാ, അന്നേ സമയം ആ ഭാർഗവൻ എന്നെ ശപിച്ചു.
Narrator (first-person within the story; embedded narration inside the Māheśvarakhaṇḍa discourse)
Scene: A brāhmaṇa father, breath drawn in sorrow, beholds his daughter; his face shifts from grief to blazing anger as the curse forms on his lips.
FAQs
Adharma provokes righteous anger and karmic consequence; a curse in Purāṇic narrative symbolizes moral law reasserting itself.
No holy site is praised in this verse.
None; it records the narrative moment of a curse arising from wrongdoing.