Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 78
सूत उवाच । ततः स कथयामास सर्वमात्मविचेष्टितम् । यथा कन्यासमं संगः कृतः शापश्च सन्मुनेः
sūta uvāca | tataḥ sa kathayāmāsa sarvamātmaviceṣṭitam | yathā kanyāsamaṃ saṃgaḥ kṛtaḥ śāpaśca sanmuneḥ
सूत म्हणाले—त्यानंतर त्याने आपल्या कृत्यांमुळे जे काही घडले ते सर्व सांगितले—कन्येसोबत त्याचा संग कसा झाला आणि सत्पुरुष मुनींचा शाप त्याला कसा प्राप्त झाला।
Sūta
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages (implied traditional frame)
Scene: A storyteller (Sūta) narrates a penitent account: a celestial figure recounts his own actions—association with a maiden and the resulting sage’s curse—before an assembly in a sacred setting.
FAQs
Actions and associations (saṅga) bear consequences; Purāṇas teach accountability and the moral causality of karma.
This verse introduces the backstory within a Tīrthamāhātmya chapter, but does not itself name the tīrtha.
None in this verse; it transitions into an explanatory narration involving a curse and prior conduct.