Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 66
न स्नानं न च दानं च लोकयात्रां विशेषतः । व्यवहारं न कृत्यं च किंचिद्धर्मसमुद्भवम्
na snānaṃ na ca dānaṃ ca lokayātrāṃ viśeṣataḥ | vyavahāraṃ na kṛtyaṃ ca kiṃciddharmasamudbhavam
स्नान नव्हते, दान नव्हते; विशेषतः लोकयात्राही नव्हती। व्यवहार नव्हता, कर्तव्य नव्हते—धर्मातून उद्भवणारे काहीच केले गेले नाही।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator, contextually Sūta-like narration within Māhātmya)
Type: ghat
Scene: A deserted ghat/riverbank with still waters, no bathers, no alms-giving; marketplaces closed; roads empty—an eerie pause in both pilgrimage and civic life under a sunless sky.
FAQs
Dharma sustains both ritual and society; when time and order are disturbed, even basic virtues like charity and purity-practices decline.
The verse is part of the Nāgarakhaṇḍa tīrtha narrative context; it does not name the location.
Snāna (bathing) and dāna (charity) are mentioned as practices that cease during the disruption.