Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 48
यदानीता सुतरुणी परहर्म्योषिता तया । अन्येषामपि विप्राणां संति नार्यो ह्यनेकशः
yadānītā sutaruṇī paraharmyoṣitā tayā | anyeṣāmapi viprāṇāṃ saṃti nāryo hyanekaśaḥ
“Kerana dia telah membawa pulang seorang gadis yang amat muda—yang telah menjadi isteri orang lain. Dan bagi brāhmaṇa yang lain juga, ada ramai wanita (dalam keadaan yang serupa).”
Narrator reporting the citizens’ speech (speaker within verse: townspeople)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A tense village/assembly scene: brāhmaṇas whispering and pointing toward a returned young woman; the father’s household in the background; expressions of suspicion and moral outrage.
FAQs
Purāṇic dharma stresses protecting social and household order; actions that blur boundaries are portrayed as sources of communal anxiety and disorder.
The tīrtha setting is implicit in the Tīrthamāhātmya section, but no specific place-name appears in this shloka.
No ritual instruction is stated here.