Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 49
तरुण्यो रूपवत्यश्च वैधव्येन समन्विताः । तासामपि च सर्वासामेष न्यायो भविष्यति । योनिसंकरजो नूनं तस्मान्निर्वास्यतामिति
taruṇyo rūpavatyaśca vaidhavyena samanvitāḥ | tāsāmapi ca sarvāsāmeṣa nyāyo bhaviṣyati | yonisaṃkarajo nūnaṃ tasmānnirvāsyatāmiti
യൗവനവും സൗന്ദര്യവും ഉള്ള വിധവകളും ഉണ്ട്. അവരുടെയെല്ലാം കാര്യത്തിലും ഇതേ ‘ന്യായം’ ഇനി നിയമമാകും. അവൻ നിശ്ചയമായി വർണസങ്കരജന; അതിനാൽ അവനെ നാടുകടത്തണം—എന്ന് അവർ പറഞ്ഞു.
Narrator reporting the citizens’ speech (speaker within verse: townspeople)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A brāhmaṇa council in heated debate; some point outward as if ordering exile; the accused man stands apart; widowed young women appear as a rhetorical example in the background, underscoring the social stakes.
FAQs
The text depicts how communities seek to prevent adharma from becoming ‘normalized’ by treating it as a precedent, urging corrective action.
This verse is within a Tīrthamāhātmya chapter, but it does not itself name the tīrtha.
No ritual is prescribed; it concerns social judgment and punishment.