Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 35
अन्योन्यं मैथुनं चक्रुः कामबाणप्रपीडिताः । कुष्ठिनं व्याधितं वापि स्थविरं व्यंगमेव च । अप्येताः पुरुषाभावे मन्यंते पंचसायकम्
anyonyaṃ maithunaṃ cakruḥ kāmabāṇaprapīḍitāḥ | kuṣṭhinaṃ vyādhitaṃ vāpi sthaviraṃ vyaṃgameva ca | apyetāḥ puruṣābhāve manyaṃte paṃcasāyakam
कामबाणप्रपीडिताः परस्परं मैथुनं चक्रुः; कुष्ठिनं व्याधितं वापि, स्थविरं व्यङ्गमेव च। अपि च पुरुषाभावेऽपि ताः पञ्चसायकं दुर्निवारं मन्यन्ते।
Garuḍa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Puruṣottama (Viṣṇu as addressee)
Scene: Garuḍa describes kāma’s arrows forcing people into degrading unions; the imagery is meant to repel and warn, not titillate—best rendered symbolically (Kāma with five arrows, minds ensnared).
FAQs
Uncontrolled desire degrades discernment; hence restraint and purity are upheld as higher dharma.
No site is named; the verse is a moral-psychological argument within the chapter’s larger sacred narrative.
None; it functions as a cautionary illustration against kāma.