Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 26
प्रेतसंदर्शनं यद्वन्मर्त्यं तत्सा महासती । वीक्षितुं न च शक्रोति गच्छमाना तदा मखे
pretasaṃdarśanaṃ yadvanmartyaṃ tatsā mahāsatī | vīkṣituṃ na ca śakroti gacchamānā tadā makhe
Assim como a visão de um fantasma é insuportável a um mortal, assim Sāvitrī, a grande e casta senhora, ao dirigir-se ao sacrifício, não conseguiu forçar-se a olhar o que ali se passava.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Tīrthamāhātmya; specific speaker not present in snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Sāvitrī, chaste and radiant yet distressed, advances toward the sacrifice but turns her face away, unable to look—her aversion likened to a mortal recoiling from a ghost.
FAQs
Adharma committed even in a sacred rite becomes so repulsive that the righteous cannot bear to witness it.
This verse sits within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya framework; the precise tīrtha name is not stated in this shloka excerpt.
None directly; the verse references a yajña (sacrificial rite) as the narrative setting.