Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 73
शक्रं कोपयता पूर्वमस्मद्गोत्रेण केनचित् । पक्षहीनः कृतो यत्र धिगपक्षस्यचेष्टितम्
śakraṃ kopayatā pūrvamasmadgotreṇa kenacit | pakṣahīnaḥ kṛto yatra dhigapakṣasyaceṣṭitam
पूर्वं केनचित् अस्मद्गोत्रेण शक्रः कोपितः; तत्र स पक्षहीनः कृतः। धिक्, अपक्षस्य चेष्टितम्—पक्षविहीनस्य प्रयत्नः कुतः फलदः?॥
Skanda (narrating/quoting; deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Kāśī (frame); Indra-loka (allusion)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣi audience (contextual)
Scene: A wingless bird-like figure (or a person with broken feathered adornment) looks upward toward Indra’s distant throne; the speaker gestures in frustration, while the Kāśī skyline hints that refuge lies elsewhere.
FAQs
Despair often interprets life through inherited blame and helplessness; dharma redirects one toward constructive refuge rather than self-condemnation.
Implicitly Kāśī, where karmic burdens are said to be lightened by devotion to Viśveśa.
None in this verse.