Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8
गुरुरात्मवतां शास्ता राजा शास्ता दुरात्मनाम् । इह प्रच्छन्नपापानां शास्ता वैवस्वतो यमः
gururātmavatāṃ śāstā rājā śāstā durātmanām | iha pracchannapāpānāṃ śāstā vaivasvato yamaḥ
لأهل ضبط النفس يكون المعلّم هو المؤدِّب؛ وللأشرار يكون الملك هو المؤدِّب. أمّا من تُخفى خطاياهم في هذا العالم، فإن يَما ابنَ ڤيڤاسڤان هو المُعاقِب الحقّ.
Mārkaṇḍeya
Listener: Pārtha (Arjuna)
Scene: Tripartite allegory: a guru instructing a calm disciple; a king administering justice to a wrongdoer; and Yama, stern yet lawful, holding a staff/noose, symbolizing unseen accountability.
FAQs
No deed is truly unaccounted for: hidden wrongdoing escapes human courts but not cosmic justice administered by Yama.
None; the verse is ethical instruction within the Revā Khaṇḍa narrative.
None explicitly; it implies the need for repentance and transparent dharmic living.