Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 10
अस्या दोषेण पापाया मृतश्च स महीपतिः । तथा राष्ट्रस्य विध्वंसे भविष्यति पुरः क्षयः
asyā doṣeṇa pāpāyā mṛtaśca sa mahīpatiḥ | tathā rāṣṭrasya vidhvaṃse bhaviṣyati puraḥ kṣayaḥ
اس گنہگار عورت کے قصور سے راجہ کی موت واقع ہوئی ہے؛ اور سلطنت کی تباہی کے ساتھ یہ شہر بھی یقیناً برباد ہو جائے گا۔
Sūta (contextual continuation; reporting citizens’ lament)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages (standard frame, not explicit in this verse)
Scene: A distressed city court or assembly: citizens accuse a woman of causing the king’s death; ominous signs over the palace and city walls suggest impending ruin.
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives show how perceived moral fault and misfortune become linked in public mind, urging a turn toward dharma, expiation, and sacred protection.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it expresses the crisis that the chapter’s tīrtha-māhātmya will resolve in subsequent context.
None in this verse.