Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 2
कस्य पुत्री च सा कद्रूः सपत्नीसा च कस्य वै । किमर्थमजयत्कद्रूः स्वसपत्नीं छलेन तु । एतन्नः श्रद्दधानानां ब्रूहि सूत कृपानिधे
kasya putrī ca sā kadrūḥ sapatnīsā ca kasya vai | kimarthamajayatkadrūḥ svasapatnīṃ chalena tu | etannaḥ śraddadhānānāṃ brūhi sūta kṛpānidhe
ती कद्रू कोणाची कन्या होती आणि कोणाची सपत्नी होती? कद्रूने छलाने आपल्या सपत्नीस का पराजित केले? हे कृपानिधि सूत, आम्ही श्रद्धेने ऐकतो—हे आम्हांस सांगा।
Ṛṣis (Sages)
Tirtha: Kṣīrakuṇḍa
Type: kund
Listener: Sūta
Scene: Sages lean forward, enumerating questions—daughter of whom, co-wife of whom, why deceit—while Sūta sits calm, compassionate; the scene feels like a courtroom of dharma in an āśrama.
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives ground tīrtha-glory in ethical history, showing how motives and actions shape outcomes.
Kṣīrakuṇḍa remains the context, as the sages inquire about liberation through its immersion.
No new rite is prescribed here; it requests the background story explaining the tīrtha-related result.