Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 13
आत्मघातो न कर्तव्यस्तस्मात्क्वापि विपश्चिता । इहापि च परत्रापि न शुभान्यात्मघातिनाम्
ātmaghāto na kartavyastasmātkvāpi vipaścitā | ihāpi ca paratrāpi na śubhānyātmaghātinām
لذلك لا ينبغي للحكيم أن يرتكب هلاك النفس في أي موضع؛ فإن قاتلي أنفسهم لا ينالون خيرًا ولا بُشرى، لا في هذه الدنيا ولا في الآخرة.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A calm, teacher-like figure (ṛṣi/ācārya) instructs a distressed person at the edge of a river-ghāṭ in Kāśī; behind them, the city’s lamps and temples symbolize ‘śubha’, while a shadowy path of self-harm is shown as barren and inauspicious.
FAQs
Life is to be protected; self-harm destroys auspiciousness in both worldly and otherworldly destinies.
No specific site; it is a universal dharma injunction placed within the Kāśī narrative.
None; it is an ethical prohibition (niṣedha) against ātmaghāta.