Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 57
अथ सा दयिता मह्यं तदादाय कलेवरम् । हर्षेण महताविष्टा प्रविष्टा हव्यवाहनम्
atha sā dayitā mahyaṃ tadādāya kalevaram | harṣeṇa mahatāviṣṭā praviṣṭā havyavāhanam
അപ്പോൾ എന്റെ പ്രിയയായവൾ എന്റെ ആ ദേഹം എടുത്തുകൊണ്ട്, മഹാ ഹർഷത്തിൽ നിറഞ്ഞ്, യജ്ഞാഗ്നിയിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ചു।
Rājā (continuing narration)
Tirtha: Mahākāla (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija-sattamāḥ (best of Brahmins) (context continues in subsequent verses)
Scene: A devoted wife lifts or embraces her husband’s lifeless body and steps into a blazing sacrificial fire, her face serene with paradoxical joy; priests and onlookers stand stunned as flames rise like a golden pillar.
FAQs
The narrative highlights unwavering spousal fidelity and the extraordinary transformative power attributed to actions performed in a sacred Śaiva setting.
The sanctified temple environment associated with Mahākāla/Hara in the chapter’s Tīrthamāhātmya; the verse itself focuses on the event rather than a named tīrtha.
No direct prescription; it narrates the beloved entering fire (havyavāhana), a motif of extreme fidelity in Purāṇic storytelling.