Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 165
नियुक्ता कामधर्मेण ह्यनिच्छंती बलान्मया । विप्रः प्रातर्जजागार पिता तस्यास्ततः परम्
niyuktā kāmadharmeṇa hyanicchaṃtī balānmayā | vipraḥ prātarjajāgāra pitā tasyāstataḥ param
اگرچہ وہ ناخوش تھی، لیکن میں نے اسے زبردستی خواہشاتِ نفسانی کا نشانہ بنایا۔ پھر، اس کے بعد، اس کا باپ—وہ برہمن—صبح بیدار ہوا۔
Ghaṃṭaka (continuing first-person account)
Scene: A dark, morally charged scene implied rather than explicit: the perpetrator’s forceful intent contrasted with the maiden’s unwillingness; then dawn with the brāhmaṇa father awakening, sensing loss.
FAQs
Forcing another into kāma is grave adharma; such acts precipitate swift karmic reaction and social rupture.
Not specified in this verse; it is part of a tīrtha-framed moral narrative.
None; the verse establishes the wrongdoing that leads to curse and repentance.