Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 28
भगिन्योपि च या देवि तव तत्र सभर्तृकाः । तासां गौरवमालोक्य न किंचिद्वक्तुमुत्सहे
bhaginyopi ca yā devi tava tatra sabhartṛkāḥ | tāsāṃ gauravamālokya na kiṃcidvaktumutsahe
ਹੇ ਦੇਵੀ, ਤੇਰੀਆਂ ਭੈਣਾਂ ਵੀ ਉੱਥੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਪਤੀਆਂ ਸਮੇਤ ਸਨ। ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਮਰਤਬਾ ਤੇ ਗੌਰਵ ਵੇਖ ਕੇ ਮੈਂ ਕੁਝ ਵੀ ਕਹਿਣ ਦੀ ਹਿੰਮਤ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰਦਾ।
Narrator (addressing Satī/Dākṣāyaṇī)
Listener: Satī (addressed as Devī)
Scene: A royal-sacrificial court where Satī’s sisters sit adorned beside their husbands; the speaker, overwhelmed by their prestige, hesitates, hands folded, unable to speak openly.
FAQs
It shows how social power and status can silence truthful speech, a recurring Purāṇic warning against compromising dharma for worldly deference.
No tīrtha is named in this verse; the broader Kāśīkhaṇḍa is oriented toward Kāśī’s glory.
None.