Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 89
पानं दुर्जन संसर्गः पत्या च विरहोटनम् । स्वप्नोन्यगृहवासश्च नारीणां दूषणानि षट्
pānaṃ durjana saṃsargaḥ patyā ca virahoṭanam | svapnonyagṛhavāsaśca nārīṇāṃ dūṣaṇāni ṣaṭ
نشہ آور چیزوں کا پینا، بدکاروں کی صحبت، شوہر سے جدائی، اور دوسرے کے گھر میں سونا—یہ عورتوں کے چھ عیوب میں شمار کیے گئے ہیں۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A moral tableau: a woman at a crossroads with symbolic temptations—wine cup, a group of wicked companions, a distant husband, and a чуж house at night—while a dharma-teacher gestures warningly near a Kāśī ghāṭ.
FAQs
Dharma is protected by restraint and careful association; conduct that leads to social and moral downfall should be avoided.
The broader frame is Kāśī (Vārāṇasī) in the Kāśī-khaṇḍa, though this verse itself is ethical instruction rather than tīrtha description.
None; it is a nīti-style warning about behaviors considered blameworthy.