Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 44
दृष्टिं विलुप्य भर्तुर्या कंचिदन्यं समीक्षते । काणा च विमुखी चापि कुरूपा चापि जायते
dṛṣṭiṃ vilupya bharturyā kaṃcidanyaṃ samīkṣate | kāṇā ca vimukhī cāpi kurūpā cāpi jāyate
जी पत्नी पतीकडील दृष्टी दूर करून दुसऱ्या पुरुषाकडे पाहते, ती दोषामुळे काणी, विमुख स्वभावाची व कुरूपही होते।
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Scene: A domestic interior in Kāśī: a woman turns her face away from her husband and glances toward another man; the scene is rendered as a moral allegory with shadowed tones and a didactic aura.
FAQs
Single-minded fidelity and reverence toward one’s spouse are presented as protective dharma; wavering attention is portrayed as spiritually and karmically harmful.
The broader discourse belongs to the Kāśī Khaṇḍa, thus situating the teaching within the sanctifying frame of Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), even if this verse itself is ethical rather than topographical.
No specific rite is prescribed here; it is an ethical injunction (ācāra) concerning conduct.