Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 77
पश्यंति दिविजाः सर्वे विमानस्थाः सकौतुकाः । अथेयमपि चांडाली वसनाशनतृष्णया
paśyaṃti divijāḥ sarve vimānasthāḥ sakautukāḥ | atheyamapi cāṃḍālī vasanāśanatṛṣṇayā
विमानांत बसलेले सर्व देव कुतूहलाने पाहत होते. तेव्हा ती चांडाळी स्त्रीही वस्त्र व अन्नाच्या तृष्णेने प्रेरित होऊन निघाली.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced)
Tirtha: Gokarṇa
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Above, devas in vimānas look down with wonder; below, a poor Caṇḍālī woman, thin and weary, turns toward the pilgrimage stream, driven by hunger and need for clothing.
FAQs
Even the socially marginalized are drawn into sacred history; divine eyes witness how need and karma lead beings toward a tīrtha.
Gokarṇa, in the ongoing account of movement toward Śiva’s sacred precinct.
None explicitly; the verse sets up a compassion-and-pilgrimage episode.