Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 120
मुनिरुवाच । स्त्रियो निंद्यतमाः सर्वाः सर्वावस्थासु दुःखदाः । इहलोके परे चैव ताभ्यः सौख्यं न लभ्यते
muniruvāca | striyo niṃdyatamāḥ sarvāḥ sarvāvasthāsu duḥkhadāḥ | ihaloke pare caiva tābhyaḥ saukhyaṃ na labhyate
മുനി പറഞ്ഞു—“സ്ത്രീകൾ എല്ലാവരും അത്യന്തം നിന്ദ്യർ; എല്ലാ അവസ്ഥകളിലും ദുഃഖദായകർ. ഇഹലോകത്തിലും പരലോകത്തിലും അവരാൽ സുഖം ലഭിക്കുകയില്ല.”
Muni (a sage narrator; specific identity not stated in the verse)
Scene: A sage seated in an āśrama speaks harshly; listeners react with discomfort or contemplation; the scene is framed as a moralizing discourse rather than celebration.
FAQs
It presents a harsh, ascetic-leaning warning against attachment and the pursuit of pleasure through relationships, framing worldly dependence as a source of sorrow in both this life and the next.
This individual verse does not name a specific tīrtha; it appears within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya context, where surrounding verses typically supply the location-specific praise.
No explicit ritual instruction (snāna, dāna, japa, vrata) is stated in this shloka.
Read Skanda Purana in the Vedapath app
Scan the QR code to open this directly in the app, with audio, word-by-word meanings, and more.