Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 8
क्षुरकर्म न शस्तं स्याद्योषितां तु वरानने । सभर्तृकाणां तत्रैव विधिं तासां शृणुष्व मे
kṣurakarma na śastaṃ syādyoṣitāṃ tu varānane | sabhartṛkāṇāṃ tatraiva vidhiṃ tāsāṃ śṛṇuṣva me
हे वरानने! स्त्रियांसाठी उस्तऱ्याने मुंडण करणे योग्य मानले जात नाही. आता तेथे पती असलेल्या स्त्रियांसाठी जो विधी आहे, तो माझ्याकडून ऐक।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: A addressed woman (varānane)
Scene: A teacher-figure instructs a modestly adorned married woman pilgrim at Prabhāsa about proper hair-ritual conduct, with the sea/coastal tīrtha ambience and distant shrine silhouettes.
FAQs
Dharma adapts ritual practice to person and context; devotion is upheld through appropriate, not uniform, observance.
The Prabhāsa pilgrimage context (especially the shaving-related rites near the tīrthas) is in view, though no new tīrtha is named.
Women are advised against kṣurakarma (razor shaving), and a distinct procedure is indicated for married women (to be detailed next).