Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 77
पश्यंति दिविजाः सर्वे विमानस्थाः सकौतुकाः । अथेयमपि चांडाली वसनाशनतृष्णया
paśyaṃti divijāḥ sarve vimānasthāḥ sakautukāḥ | atheyamapi cāṃḍālī vasanāśanatṛṣṇayā
سب دیوتا اپنے ویمانوں میں بیٹھے تجسس سے دیکھ رہے تھے۔ پھر یہ چانڈالی عورت بھی—کپڑے اور خوراک کی آرزو سے بے قرار ہو کر—چل پڑی۔
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced)
Tirtha: Gokarṇa
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Above, devas in vimānas look down with wonder; below, a poor Caṇḍālī woman, thin and weary, turns toward the pilgrimage stream, driven by hunger and need for clothing.
FAQs
Even the socially marginalized are drawn into sacred history; divine eyes witness how need and karma lead beings toward a tīrtha.
Gokarṇa, in the ongoing account of movement toward Śiva’s sacred precinct.
None explicitly; the verse sets up a compassion-and-pilgrimage episode.