Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 56
एतां संवृणु सद्वृत्तां पितृभक्तियुता भव । श्वशुरोपि हि ते मान्यः सर्वत्र गुणशीलतः
etāṃ saṃvṛṇu sadvṛttāṃ pitṛbhaktiyutā bhava | śvaśuropi hi te mānyaḥ sarvatra guṇaśīlataḥ
या सद्वृत्ता पत्नीला स्वीकारून जप; आणि पितृभक्तियुक्त राहा. तुझा श्वशुरही गुण व शीलामुळे सर्वत्र मान्य आहे.
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa context) narrating to Agastya
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: young householder
Scene: A respectful household scene: the young man bows to his father and honors his father-in-law; the wife stands modestly; offerings of water/flowers; a small domestic shrine indicates dharmic life in Kāśī.
FAQs
Dharma in household life includes honoring one’s spouse and revering elders—father and father-in-law—because virtue deserves respect.
Kāśī is the overarching sacred frame of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa; this verse focuses on dharma of relationships rather than a specific tīrtha.
None; it prescribes social and familial dharma—pitṛ-bhakti and honoring elders.