Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 50
इयं मे दयिता साध्वी प्राणेभ्योऽपि गरीयसी । मम देहं समादाय प्रविष्टा हव्यवाहनम्
iyaṃ me dayitā sādhvī prāṇebhyo'pi garīyasī | mama dehaṃ samādāya praviṣṭā havyavāhanam
یہ میری محبوبہ، پاک دامن بیوی—جو جان سے بھی بڑھ کر عزیز تھی—میرا جسم اٹھا کر مقدس آگ، یعنی چتا کی شعلہ میں داخل ہو گئی۔
Rājā
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Somnātha)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvijottamas / sages (addressed as ‘best of twice-born’ in the passage cluster)
Scene: A virtuous wife, composed yet grief-stricken, lifts or supports her husband’s body and steps into the blazing funeral fire; priests and elders stand at a distance; the sky is dusk-red, with Prabhāsa’s sacred aura implied.
FAQs
It portrays intense spousal fidelity and virtue as understood in the Purāṇic narrative frame, linking dharma to end-of-life conduct.
The episode belongs to the Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya narrative cycle, though this verse focuses on the personal conclusion rather than a specific new tīrtha.
Entry into the funeral fire is described as an event in the story (havyavāhana); it is not framed here as a general prescription.