Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 129
नूनं तत्त्वेन जानामि अवलिप्तासि भामिनि । कुरुष्वाद्यापि मे वाक्यं भार्या भव मम प्रिया
nūnaṃ tattvena jānāmi avaliptāsi bhāmini | kuruṣvādyāpi me vākyaṃ bhāryā bhava mama priyā
आता मी खरोखर जाणले—हे भामिनि, तू गर्विष्ठ आहेस. तरीही आत्ताच माझे वचन मान; माझी प्रिया पत्नी हो।
King (pārthiva; exact name not in snippet)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (frame) / Arbuda-parvata (sectional locus)
Type: kshetra
Scene: The man speaks with possessive desire, demanding the woman become his wife; the woman’s posture suggests refusal and latent power.
FAQs
Kāma and arrogance distort judgment; treating the divine as an object of desire is a grave fall from dharma.
The episode is embedded in Arbuda-khaṇḍa’s sacred topography, but this verse is ethical-narrative rather than tīrtha praise.
None.