न वेदाध्ययनं चक्रुर्ब्राह्मणास्तद्भयादिताः । यज्ञवाटा विनिर्ध्वस्तास्तद्भटैरतिदुःसहैः
na vedādhyayanaṃ cakrurbrāhmaṇāstadbhayāditāḥ | yajñavāṭā vinirdhvastāstadbhaṭairatiduḥsahaiḥ
اُس کے خوف سے لرزاں برہمنوں نے ویدوں کا ادھیयन ترک کر دیا؛ اور اُس کے نہایت ناقابلِ برداشت سپاہیوں نے یَجْیَہ کے میدانوں کو اجاڑ ڈالا۔
Skanda
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
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Scene: A terrorized cityscape of Kāśī: brāhmaṇas with closed palm-leaf manuscripts, abandoned yajña-vedīs broken and smoking, armed soldiers trampling ritual spaces; the atmosphere heavy with fear and sacrilege.
Social and spiritual order collapses when dharma is threatened; safeguarding sacred learning and yajña sustains the world.
Kāśī is the overarching sacred geography of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, but this verse describes the general breakdown of Vedic life.
Implicitly, Veda-study and yajña are upheld as dharmic duties, though no specific rite is instructed in this line.