Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 82
हाशिशो हागुणनिधे हा पितुर्वाक्यकारक । हा कुतो मंदभाग्याया जठरे मे समागतः
hāśiśo hāguṇanidhe hā piturvākyakāraka | hā kuto maṃdabhāgyāyā jaṭhare me samāgataḥ
“हाय माझ्या बाळा! हाय गुणनिधे! हाय पित्याचे वचन पूर्ण करणाऱ्या! हाय, मी मंदभाग्यिनी—तू माझ्या उदरात कसा आला?” असे ती विलाप करू लागली।
Śuciṣmatī (deduced from preceding verse)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and ṛṣis (traditional frame)
Scene: Śuciṣmatī addresses her child directly—calling him a ‘treasure of virtues’ and ‘doer of the father’s word’—her hands lifted in pleading, eyes swollen with tears, voice breaking.
FAQs
Parental love and sorrow reveal the fragility of worldly bonds; dharma is praised even amid grief.
The larger Kāśīkhaṇḍa framework is Kāśī, but this verse is a personal lament, not tīrtha-stuti.
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