Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 53
मेधवर्णा परा नारी चलत्कनकमेखला । श्वेतवस्त्रोत्तरीया तु पपात धरणीतले
medhavarṇā parā nārī calatkanakamekhalā | śvetavastrottarīyā tu papāta dharaṇītale
สตรีผู้สูงศักดิ์ ผิวพรรณผ่อง มีเข็มขัดทองไหวระริก นุ่งห่มผ้าขาวและผ้าคลุมบ่า แล้วทรุดล้มลงสู่พื้นดิน
Narrator (contextual purāṇic narration within Revā Khaṇḍa; exact speaker not stated in the snippet)
Scene: A fair woman in white garments with a swaying golden girdle stumbles and collapses onto the earth as smoke and embers drift around.
FAQs
Outer splendor cannot shield one from fate; the scene urges inner refuge in dharma and remembrance of the sacred.
The Revā Khaṇḍa broadly praises the sacred geography of the Revā/Narmadā region; this verse itself is descriptive rather than tīrtha-specific.
None in this verse.