Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 61
यज्ञो हि सत्यं लोके त्वं स त्वं देववरेश्वर । अनाहूतोऽसि तेनाद्य पित्रा मे दृष्टचारिणा । तत्सर्वं ज्ञातुमिच्छामि तस्य भावं दुरात्मनः
yajño hi satyaṃ loke tvaṃ sa tvaṃ devavareśvara | anāhūto'si tenādya pitrā me dṛṣṭacāriṇā | tatsarvaṃ jñātumicchāmi tasya bhāvaṃ durātmanaḥ
लोकी यज्ञ सत्यस्वरूप मानला जातो, आणि हे देवश्रेष्ठ ईश्वर, ते सत्य तूच आहेस. तरीही आज माझ्या कुटिल आचरणाच्या पित्याने तुला निमंत्रण दिले नाही. मला हे सर्व जाणून घ्यायचे आहे—त्या दुरात्म्याचा हेतू काय आहे?
Satī
Scene: Satī proclaims: ‘Yajña is truth—and you are that Truth’; she points toward Śiva with reverence and indignation. A faint vision of Dakṣa’s yajña appears as a distant, prideful spectacle.
FAQs
Sacred rites become hollow when pride overrides reverence; dharma in yajña requires honoring the highest truth, not social ego.
The Kedārakhaṇḍa context frames the narrative, but the verse itself centers on the Dakṣa-yajña episode rather than a named tīrtha.
Implicitly, that yajña must be conducted with proper honor to divinity; no explicit vrata/dāna/snānā instruction appears.