Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 63
शास्त्रेषूक्तमिदं वाक्यं नान्यथा कर्तुमर्हसि । अमुं च पृष्ठलग्नं त्वं पश्य भोः स्वं पितामहम्
śāstreṣūktamidaṃ vākyaṃ nānyathā kartumarhasi | amuṃ ca pṛṣṭhalagnaṃ tvaṃ paśya bhoḥ svaṃ pitāmaham
یہ بات شاستروں میں کہی گئی ہے؛ تمہیں اس کے خلاف عمل نہیں کرنا چاہیے۔ اور دیکھو—اے جناب—تمہارا اپنا پِتامہہ تمہاری پیٹھ سے چمٹا ہوا ہے۔
The goddesses (continuing instruction)
Scene: A counselor points to an elder—his own grandfather—clinging to the hero’s back, invoking śāstra to stop an improper act; the scene blends moral authority with familial pathos.
FAQs
Śāstra-guided dharma is upheld, and ancestral bonds are portrayed as spiritually real and consequential.
No site is named; the verse continues the moral-theological instruction within the coastal tīrtha episode.
None explicitly; it is an injunction to conform to śāstric guidance.