Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 31
अथ मध्येवरोधं स प्रविश्य निजमायया । दृष्टार्थमेव कथयन्स्त्रीणां विस्रंभभूरभूत्
atha madhyevarodhaṃ sa praviśya nijamāyayā | dṛṣṭārthameva kathayanstrīṇāṃ visraṃbhabhūrabhūt
پھر وہ اپنی مایا کے زور سے عورتوں کے اندرونی حصّے میں داخل ہوا؛ صرف ‘دیکھی بھالی باتیں’ اور قرینِ قیاس امور بیان کرتا رہا، اور یوں عورتوں کے لیے اعتماد کا سہارا بن گیا۔
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A disguised figure enters a secluded inner courtyard; women listen as he speaks confidently, gesturing as if citing ‘evidence.’ The atmosphere is intimate yet uneasy, with a sense of hidden danger behind polite conversation.
FAQs
Deceit gains entry by sounding ‘reasonable’; dharma requires careful discernment, especially where trust is easily won.
The larger Kāśī setting frames the episode; the verse itself is narrative and does not praise a named tīrtha.
None.