Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 47
बलात्कारोपभुक्ता वा चोरहस्तगतापि वा । न त्याज्या दयिता नारी नास्यास्त्यागो विधीयते
balātkāropabhuktā vā corahastagatāpi vā | na tyājyā dayitā nārī nāsyāstyāgo vidhīyate
اگر محبوب عورت پر زبردستی کی گئی ہو، یا وہ چوروں کے ہاتھ لگ گئی ہو، تب بھی اسے ترک نہ کیا جائے؛ اس کا ترک کرنا شریعتِ دھرم میں مقرر نہیں۔
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa: Skanda to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Sages/pilgrims (implied)
Scene: A compassionate household scene: a distressed woman is sheltered by her husband/family while elders and a priest counsel protection and justice; the Gaṅgā-side cityscape of Kāśī is faintly visible, underscoring dharma amid suffering.
FAQs
It emphasizes compassion and steadfast household duty, rejecting abandonment of the victim of violence or coercion.
The broader Kāśī dharma discourse forms the setting; no individual tirtha is named in this verse.
No ritual act is prescribed; it gives a moral-legal injunction regarding non-abandonment.