Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 5
तत्कुर्वाणास्ततो रात्रौ शप्ता गांधर्वसत्तमे । स्त्रीणां दुःखेन दुःखार्ता जायंते सर्वयोषितः
tatkurvāṇāstato rātrau śaptā gāṃdharvasattame | strīṇāṃ duḥkhena duḥkhārtā jāyaṃte sarvayoṣitaḥ
ഹേ ഗന്ധർവ്വശ്രേഷ്ഠാ! അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കെ ആ രാത്രിയിൽ അവർ ശപിക്കപ്പെട്ടു; സ്ത്രീകളുടെ ദുഃഖം മൂലം എല്ലാ സ്ത്രീകളും ദുഃഖാർത്തരായി ജന്മിക്കുന്നു.
Narrator (speaker not explicit in the snippet; Purāṇic narration within Tīrthamāhātmya)
Tirtha: Audumbarī/Sāvitrī-sannidhi tīrtha (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Gandharva-sattama (explicitly addressed)
Scene: Night scene: dancers and singers mid-performance suddenly struck by the weight of a curse; the air turns heavy, faces shift from joy to terror; an unseen divine force is implied.
FAQs
Actions that ignore dharma can invite śāpa (curse), and the resulting karma manifests as repeated sorrow and constrained life-conditions.
This is part of the broader Tīrthamāhātmya narrative framework; the verse itself focuses on karmic causation rather than naming a tīrtha.
None here; it describes the consequence (śāpa) that later motivates seeking a remedial worship.