Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 28
ततो ज्ञात्वा महद्भूतं क्षुधाविष्टं द्विजर्षभम् । न जहाति नगश्छायां पानार्थाय ततः परम् । अपिबच्च सुतं तस्मादभृतं चैव भारत
tato jñātvā mahadbhūtaṃ kṣudhāviṣṭaṃ dvijarṣabham | na jahāti nagaśchāyāṃ pānārthāya tataḥ param | apibacca sutaṃ tasmādabhṛtaṃ caiva bhārata
ครั้นนางรู้ถึงเหตุอันใหญ่หลวงว่า พราหมณ์ผู้ประเสริฐดุจโคอุสุภะนั้นถูกความหิวครอบงำ นางจึงมิได้ละร่มเงาแห่งพฤกษา แม้เพื่อแสวงน้ำดื่มต่อไป โอ้ภารตะ นางได้ดื่มน้ำนมจากเขา เลี้ยงบุตรให้ดำรงชีพไว้
Narrator (Purāṇic narrator within Revā-khaṇḍa context)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) tīrtha (general)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Bhārata (addressed in the verse)
Scene: A mother under a great tree’s shade on a riverbank, sheltering and nursing her child; the atmosphere is austere, with signs of hunger and endurance.
FAQs
Dharma is upheld through compassion and sustaining life; even amid scarcity, righteous care becomes the seed of future spiritual power.
No named tīrtha appears; the setting remains within the Revā-khaṇḍa’s sacred Narmadā-region atmosphere.
None; it is narrative and ethical in emphasis.