Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 48
यदानीता सुतरुणी परहर्म्योषिता तया । अन्येषामपि विप्राणां संति नार्यो ह्यनेकशः
yadānītā sutaruṇī paraharmyoṣitā tayā | anyeṣāmapi viprāṇāṃ saṃti nāryo hyanekaśaḥ
അവൾ മറ്റൊരാളുടെ ഭാര്യയായിത്തീർന്ന അത്യന്തം യുവതിയായ കന്യയെ തിരികെ കൊണ്ടുവന്നു. മറ്റു ബ്രാഹ്മണന്മാർക്കും ഇത്തരത്തിലുള്ള അനേകം സ്ത്രീകൾ ഉണ്ട്.
Narrator reporting the citizens’ speech (speaker within verse: townspeople)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A tense village/assembly scene: brāhmaṇas whispering and pointing toward a returned young woman; the father’s household in the background; expressions of suspicion and moral outrage.
FAQs
Purāṇic dharma stresses protecting social and household order; actions that blur boundaries are portrayed as sources of communal anxiety and disorder.
The tīrtha setting is implicit in the Tīrthamāhātmya section, but no specific place-name appears in this shloka.
No ritual instruction is stated here.