Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 69
एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु यज्ञदानादिकाः क्रियाः । प्रणष्टा भूतले राजंस्तीर्थयात्राव्रतोद्भवाः
etasminneva kāle tu yajñadānādikāḥ kriyāḥ | praṇaṣṭā bhūtale rājaṃstīrthayātrāvratodbhavāḥ
اسی وقت، اے راجن، یَجْن، دان اور اس جیسے اعمال زمین سے مٹ گئے؛ اور تیرتھ یاترا اور ورتوں سے پیدا ہونے والی مذہبی پابندیاں بھی ناپید ہو گئیں۔
Pulastya (narrator) (deduced from nearby 'Pulastya uvāca')
Listener: Nṛpa-sattama (king)
Scene: A desolate ritual landscape: abandoned yajña-vedis, extinguished sacred fires, empty ghats, pilgrims absent; the earth appears spiritually ‘dry’.
FAQs
When pilgrimage, vows, sacrifice, and charity fade, dharma weakens on earth; sacred practice is portrayed as the support of cosmic order.
The Arbuda (Mount Abu) sacred region is the setting within the Arbuda-khaṇḍa, framing tīrtha-yātrā as a sustaining force of dharma.
Yajña (sacrifice), dāna (charity), tīrtha-yātrā (pilgrimage), and vrata (vowed observance) are referenced as key religious disciplines.