Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 69
अग्निदो गरदश्चैव राजगामी च पैशुनी । कथाभङ्गकरश्चैव कूटसाक्षी च मद्यपः
agnido garadaścaiva rājagāmī ca paiśunī | kathābhaṅgakaraścaiva kūṭasākṣī ca madyapaḥ
مُضرِمُ النار، ووضّاعُ السُّمّ، ومن يقصد دار الملك بسوء (أو ينتهك حرمتها)، والوشّاء؛ وناقضُ العهد، وشاهدُ الزور، وشاربُ الخمر—فهؤلاء من أهل الإدانة.
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced)
Tirtha: Revā-kṣetra (general)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A ‘catalog’ montage: arsonist with torch, poisoner with vial, slanderer whispering, oath-breaker snapping a pledge cord, false witness before a court, drunkard staggering—each shadowed by Yama’s judgment.
FAQs
Grave social and moral crimes—violence, deception, and slander—are explicitly condemned as adharma with heavy karmic fallout.
The Revā-māhātmya setting continues; the tīrtha’s holiness is paired with warnings against major sins.
None; it enumerates prohibited acts (mahāpātaka-like offenses) to be avoided.
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