Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 24
यथा मया गृहं त्यक्तं दृष्ट्वा सर्पविचेष्टितम् । गृहारंभः सुदुःखाय सुखाय न कदाचन
yathā mayā gṛhaṃ tyaktaṃ dṛṣṭvā sarpaviceṣṭitam | gṛhāraṃbhaḥ suduḥkhāya sukhāya na kadācana
सर्पाची चेष्टा पाहून मी घर त्यागले; कारण गृहस्थीचा आरंभ व पालन हे मोठ्या दुःखास कारणीभूत—खऱ्या सुखास कधीच नाही.
An ascetic/renunciate narrator within the Tīrthamāhātmya dialogue (speaker not explicitly named in the provided snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A person witnesses a serpent’s movements in/around a house and, struck by insight, abandons the home, declaring household undertaking leads to sorrow, not true happiness.
FAQs
Household attachment easily becomes bondage; discernment (viveka) turns one toward liberation.
The verse is ethical instruction within a tīrtha-context; the particular pilgrimage site is not specified in this shloka alone.
No explicit rite is mentioned; the instruction is renunciatory and contemplative.