Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 92
त्वयोक्तं कपिले पूर्वं शपथैरागमाय च । तेन मे कौतुकं जातं याताऽगच्छेत्पुनः कथम्
tvayoktaṃ kapile pūrvaṃ śapathairāgamāya ca | tena me kautukaṃ jātaṃ yātā'gacchetpunaḥ katham
اے کپیلا! پہلے تم نے سخت قسموں کے ساتھ یہ وعدہ کیا تھا کہ تم پھر لوٹو گی۔ اسی سے میرے دل میں تعجب پیدا ہوا ہے کہ جو جا چکا ہو وہ دوبارہ کیسے واپس آ سکتا ہے؟
Vyāghra (Tiger)
Scene: A questioning speaker addresses Kapilā, recalling her earlier oath to return; the moment is intimate, dialogic, and charged with wonder about how the departed can come back.
FAQs
The verse foregrounds vow-keeping (śapatha) as an extension of satya—truth binds one’s actions across time.
No specific tīrtha is named; the focus is the moral tension of promise and return within the Arbuda narrative.
None; it discusses an oath and the expectation of its fulfillment.