Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 49
तरुण्यो रूपवत्यश्च वैधव्येन समन्विताः । तासामपि च सर्वासामेष न्यायो भविष्यति । योनिसंकरजो नूनं तस्मान्निर्वास्यतामिति
taruṇyo rūpavatyaśca vaidhavyena samanvitāḥ | tāsāmapi ca sarvāsāmeṣa nyāyo bhaviṣyati | yonisaṃkarajo nūnaṃ tasmānnirvāsyatāmiti
«Есть и юные, прекрасные женщины, ставшие вдовами. Для всех них этот же “прецедент” станет правилом. Несомненно, он рожден от смешанного, нечистого рода; потому пусть будет изгнан» — так они говорили.
Narrator reporting the citizens’ speech (speaker within verse: townspeople)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A brāhmaṇa council in heated debate; some point outward as if ordering exile; the accused man stands apart; widowed young women appear as a rhetorical example in the background, underscoring the social stakes.
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The text depicts how communities seek to prevent adharma from becoming ‘normalized’ by treating it as a precedent, urging corrective action.
This verse is within a Tīrthamāhātmya chapter, but it does not itself name the tīrtha.
No ritual is prescribed; it concerns social judgment and punishment.
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