Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 29
स कृत्रिमोद्भूतकलत्रभावः प्रयुक्तकर्णाभरणांगरागः । स्निग्धाञ्जनाक्षः स्पृहणीयरूपो बभूव सद्यः प्रमदोत्तमाभः
sa kṛtrimodbhūtakalatrabhāvaḥ prayuktakarṇābharaṇāṃgarāgaḥ | snigdhāñjanākṣaḥ spṛhaṇīyarūpo babhūva sadyaḥ pramadottamābhaḥ
तो कृत्रिमरीत्या पत्नी-सदृश भाव धारण करून, कानांत भूषणे, अंगावर लेप, आणि डोळ्यांत स्निग्ध अंजन लावून, क्षणार्धातच मनोहर व स्पृहणीय—उत्तम तरुणीप्रमाणे—दिसू लागला.
Narrator
Scene: Close-up, poetic tableau: the disguised youth with earrings, fragrant unguents, collyrium-darkened eyes, and an alluring, newly fashioned feminine grace.
FAQs
Outer beauty and identity can be crafted and deceiving; Purāṇic narratives often use such scenes to point toward discernment and inner truth.
No tīrtha is referenced in this verse.
None; the verse is descriptive (ornaments, unguents, collyrium).