Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 63
शास्त्रेषूक्तमिदं वाक्यं नान्यथा कर्तुमर्हसि । अमुं च पृष्ठलग्नं त्वं पश्य भोः स्वं पितामहम्
śāstreṣūktamidaṃ vākyaṃ nānyathā kartumarhasi | amuṃ ca pṛṣṭhalagnaṃ tvaṃ paśya bhoḥ svaṃ pitāmaham
ਇਹ ਬਚਨ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਕਿਹਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ; ਤੂੰ ਇਸ ਤੋਂ ਵੱਖਰਾ ਕਰਮ ਕਰਨ ਜੋਗਾ ਨਹੀਂ। ਅਤੇ ਵੇਖ, ਹੇ ਮਹੋਦਯ, ਤੇਰਾ ਆਪਣਾ ਪਿਤਾਮਹ ਤੇਰੀ ਪਿੱਠ ਨਾਲ ਲੱਗਿਆ ਹੋਇਆ ਹੈ।
The goddesses (continuing instruction)
Scene: A counselor points to an elder—his own grandfather—clinging to the hero’s back, invoking śāstra to stop an improper act; the scene blends moral authority with familial pathos.
FAQs
Śāstra-guided dharma is upheld, and ancestral bonds are portrayed as spiritually real and consequential.
No site is named; the verse continues the moral-theological instruction within the coastal tīrtha episode.
None explicitly; it is an injunction to conform to śāstric guidance.