Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 3
असाक्षिकेषु चार्थेषु मिथो विवदमानयोः । राजद्रोहाभिशापेषु साहसेषु तथैव च
asākṣikeṣu cārtheṣu mitho vivadamānayoḥ | rājadrohābhiśāpeṣu sāhaseṣu tathaiva ca
जिथे साक्षी नसतात आणि दोन्ही पक्ष परस्पर वाद करतात; राजद्रोहाच्या आरोपांत; शाप व आक्षेपांत; तसेच साहस/हिंसेच्या कृत्यांत—अशा ठिकाणी दिव्य परीक्षा वापरतात।
Nārada
Listener: Arjuna
Scene: A royal court or council where two disputants argue without witnesses; ministers and a sage advise; symbols of treason accusation and violence cases appear as shadowed vignettes, emphasizing the need for divine ordeal.
FAQs
Society must uphold truth and justice; when ordinary proof is missing, dharmic systems prescribe extraordinary means to prevent adharma.
None; the verse is juridical/dharmic rather than tīrtha-centered.
It specifies the contexts—witnessless disputes and grave charges—where divya-parīkṣā may be invoked.