Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 24
यथा मया गृहं त्यक्तं दृष्ट्वा सर्पविचेष्टितम् । गृहारंभः सुदुःखाय सुखाय न कदाचन
yathā mayā gṛhaṃ tyaktaṃ dṛṣṭvā sarpaviceṣṭitam | gṛhāraṃbhaḥ suduḥkhāya sukhāya na kadācana
ครั้นเห็นกิริยาของงู ข้าพเจ้าจึงละเรือนเสีย เพราะการเริ่มต้นและค้ำจุนเรือนนั้นนำมาซึ่งทุกข์ใหญ่ มิใช่เพื่อสุขแท้เลย
An ascetic/renunciate narrator within the Tīrthamāhātmya dialogue (speaker not explicitly named in the provided snippet)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A person witnesses a serpent’s movements in/around a house and, struck by insight, abandons the home, declaring household undertaking leads to sorrow, not true happiness.
FAQs
Household attachment easily becomes bondage; discernment (viveka) turns one toward liberation.
The verse is ethical instruction within a tīrtha-context; the particular pilgrimage site is not specified in this shloka alone.
No explicit rite is mentioned; the instruction is renunciatory and contemplative.