Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 52
विवस्त्रा सापि तत्रैव खिन्नांगी कामसेवया । न शशाक क्वचिद्गंतुं समुत्थाय ततः क्षितौ
vivastrā sāpi tatraiva khinnāṃgī kāmasevayā | na śaśāka kvacidgaṃtuṃ samutthāya tataḥ kṣitau
അവളും അവിടെത്തന്നെ വസ്ത്രരഹിതയായി നിന്നു; കാമസേവനാൽ ശരീരം ക്ഷീണിച്ചതിനാൽ, നിലത്തു നിന്നുയർന്ന് എവിടെയും പോകാൻ അവൾക്കായില്ല।
Narrator (purāṇic narrative voice)
Scene: A woman lies or sits collapsed on the earth, unclothed and exhausted, hair disheveled, gaze vacant with shock; the landscape feels indifferent—open ground near a grove—inviting the next act of rescue or sacred intervention.
FAQs
Adharma brings immediate suffering and loss of dignity; the Purāṇas portray this to deter harm and uphold protection of the vulnerable.
No site is named in this verse; it serves the moral arc within the larger tīrtha-māhātmya.
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