Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 43
अन्त्यजाता तथा कन्या क्षतयोनिः प्रजायते । तथा गोपकुमारी च काचित्तादृक्प्रजायते
antyajātā tathā kanyā kṣatayoniḥ prajāyate | tathā gopakumārī ca kācittādṛkprajāyate
അന്ത്യജ വംശത്തിൽ ജനിച്ച കന്യയും ക്ഷതയോനി നിലയിൽ ജനിക്കാം; അതുപോലെ ഗോപകുമാരികളിലും ചിലർ അത്തരം അവസ്ഥയോടെ തന്നെ ജനിക്കുന്നു।
Unspecified (narrative voice; exact attribution not in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A didactic moment: an elder explains to an assembly, gesturing toward a distressed young woman; the scene conveys sorrow and social judgment, with a pastoral hint of gopa life in the background.
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It continues a polemical moral narrative that links social and bodily conditions with perceived ethical decline, urging avoidance of adharma.
No tīrtha is named in this verse; it appears within a chapter categorized as Tīrthamāhātmya.
None in this verse.