Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 87
बहुभिः कलहो नित्यं द्वाभ्यां संघर्षणं तथा । एकाकी विचरिष्यामि कुमारीवलयं यथा
bahubhiḥ kalaho nityaṃ dvābhyāṃ saṃgharṣaṇaṃ tathā | ekākī vicariṣyāmi kumārīvalayaṃ yathā
अनेकांबरोबर नेहमी कलह होतो; दोघांमध्येही घर्षण होते. म्हणून मी एकाकीच भटकत राहीन—कुमारीच्या मनगटावरील एकमेव वळ्यासारखा, जो एकटा असता खणखणत नाही.
Unnamed narrator (first-person voice within the Adhyāya); framed later by Sūta’s narration in this section
Scene: A didactic tableau: many people arguing in the background, two figures in dispute in the mid-ground, and a lone wanderer in the foreground; inset shows a single bangle on a maiden’s wrist—silent and still.
FAQs
Reducing social entanglement helps curb quarrel and supports inner quiet suited to spiritual pursuit.
This verse is an ethical-spiritual maxim within the Tīrthamāhātmya frame; no specific tīrtha is identified here.
No ritual is prescribed; it recommends a lifestyle discipline—solitary wandering and restraint of conflict.