Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 58
स्वामिन्भक्तपरित्यागः सर्वशास्त्रेषु गर्हितः । त्यजताऽस्मान्वने वीर धर्मो नावेक्षितस्त्वया
svāminbhaktaparityāgaḥ sarvaśāstreṣu garhitaḥ | tyajatā'smānvane vīra dharmo nāvekṣitastvayā
“اے سوامی، بھکتوں کو چھوڑ دینا سب شاستروں میں مذموم ہے۔ اے بہادر، جب تم نے ہمیں جنگل میں چھوڑا تو تم نے دھرم کی بالکل پاسداری نہ کی۔”
Vraja women (gopīs), quoted within Prahlāda’s narration
Tirtha: Vraja-vana (evoked) / Dvārakā (frame)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Gopīs cite śāstra as witness, accusing Krishna of abandoning devotees when he left them in the forest; the scene feels like a plaintive petition, with hands raised as if taking oath before dharma itself.
FAQs
The Lord is expected to be bhakta-vatsala; the devotee’s trust rests on the scripture-backed ideal that God does not forsake sincere devotees.
Dvārakā-māhātmya provides the setting; the “forest” evokes the Vraja region’s remembered spaces of līlā and separation.
None explicitly; the verse cites śāstric authority as moral-theological guidance.