Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 10
परिधाय पुनः सा तु कौपीनं रेतसायुतम् । एकांते स्नातुमारब्धा जलाभ्याशे यथासुखम्
paridhāya punaḥ sā tu kaupīnaṃ retasāyutam | ekāṃte snātumārabdhā jalābhyāśe yathāsukham
അവൾ വീണ്ടും റേതസോടെ യുക്തമായ (കലയങ്കിതമായ) ആ കൗപീനം ധരിച്ചു. പിന്നെ ഏകാന്തത്തിൽ ജലസമീപത്ത്, ഇഷ്ടപ്രകാരം സ്നാനം ആരംഭിച്ചു।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya; specific speaker not explicit in this snippet)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: ghat
Scene: Subhadrā, alone near the water, dons the found loincloth despite its stain and begins bathing privately; the scene should convey moral tension and impending supernatural outcome without explicit depiction.
FAQs
It foreshadows how lapses in discernment around purity can lead to grave consequences—Purāṇas use such moments to teach careful, dharmic awareness.
The act occurs near sacred waters within the Prabhāsa-kṣetra māhātmya narrative environment, where bathing sites are spiritually charged.
Snāna (bathing) is performed, but without procedural details; the emphasis is narrative and moral rather than liturgical.