Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 61
यज्ञो हि सत्यं लोके त्वं स त्वं देववरेश्वर । अनाहूतोऽसि तेनाद्य पित्रा मे दृष्टचारिणा । तत्सर्वं ज्ञातुमिच्छामि तस्य भावं दुरात्मनः
yajño hi satyaṃ loke tvaṃ sa tvaṃ devavareśvara | anāhūto'si tenādya pitrā me dṛṣṭacāriṇā | tatsarvaṃ jñātumicchāmi tasya bhāvaṃ durātmanaḥ
Yajña dianggap di dunia sebagai upacara suci yang memikul kebenaran—dan Engkaulah Kebenaran itu sendiri, wahai Tuhan, yang termulia antara para dewa. Namun hari ini ayahku, yang berkelakuan menyimpang, tidak menjemput-Mu. Aku ingin mengetahui semuanya—apakah niat si berhati jahat itu?
Satī
Scene: Satī proclaims: ‘Yajña is truth—and you are that Truth’; she points toward Śiva with reverence and indignation. A faint vision of Dakṣa’s yajña appears as a distant, prideful spectacle.
FAQs
Sacred rites become hollow when pride overrides reverence; dharma in yajña requires honoring the highest truth, not social ego.
The Kedārakhaṇḍa context frames the narrative, but the verse itself centers on the Dakṣa-yajña episode rather than a named tīrtha.
Implicitly, that yajña must be conducted with proper honor to divinity; no explicit vrata/dāna/snānā instruction appears.