Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 89
अनपत्योस्मि तेनाहं दुष्टेन कुलदूषिणा । उत्तिष्ठानय दर्भांबु तस्मै दद्यां तिलांजलिम्
anapatyosmi tenāhaṃ duṣṭena kuladūṣiṇā | uttiṣṭhānaya darbhāṃbu tasmai dadyāṃ tilāṃjalim
أنا بلا ابنٍ صالح بسبب ذلك الشرير الذي يلطّخ السلالة. انهضْ—هاتِ عشب الكوشا والماء؛ سأقدّم له سكبَةَ السمسم والماء، كما تُقدَّم للأموات.
Skanda (narrating to Agastya, Kāśīkhaṇḍa frame)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A grieving yet stern householder orders kuśa and water to offer a sesame-water libation as if to the dead, implying symbolic ‘death’ of a wicked family member; ritual items are foregrounded.
FAQs
A family’s honor is tied to conduct; grievous wrongdoing is treated as a ‘social death,’ prompting rites that signify severance and moral condemnation.
The verse sits within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī-centered teaching, but it does not name a particular tīrtha.
Offering tilāñjali (sesame-water libation) with darbha (kuśa grass), a śrāddha-associated rite.