Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 21
आसुरीं दानवीं दैवीं यक्षिणीं किंनरीं तथा । विद्याधरीं च गन्धर्वीं नागकन्यां मनोरमाम् । एता वरस्त्रियस्त्यक्त्वा युष्मदीयासु तास्वपि
āsurīṃ dānavīṃ daivīṃ yakṣiṇīṃ kiṃnarīṃ tathā | vidyādharīṃ ca gandharvīṃ nāgakanyāṃ manoramām | etā varastriyastyaktvā yuṣmadīyāsu tāsvapi
അസുരീ, ദാനവീ, ദേവീ, യക്ഷിണീ, കിന്നരീ, വിദ്യാധരീ, ഗന്ധർവീ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മനോഹരമായ നാഗകന്യ—ഇത്തരം ശ്രേഷ്ഠസ്ത്രീകളെ ഉപേക്ഷിച്ച്—നിങ്ങളുടെ സ്ത്രീകളിലേക്കും അവൻ എങ്ങനെ രമിക്കുമെന്നു?
Brahmā
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A speaker contrasts many classes of enchanting non-human maidens—Asurī, Dānavī, Devī, Yakṣiṇī, Kiṃnarī, Vidyādharī, Gandharvī, Nāga-kanyā—implying that even such splendor is forsaken; the scene is rhetorical, courtly, and charged with restrained sensuality.
FAQs
Baseless suspicion of the divine is irrational; purāṇic rhetoric exposes the folly of envy-driven accusations.
Prabhāsakṣetra, where the narrative frames moral discernment within a sacred geography.
None; the verse is argumentative instruction within the story.