Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 12
उद्बंधन मृता ये च पतिता आत्मघातकाः । आत्मविक्रयिणश्चोरा ये तथाऽयाज्ययाजकाः
udbaṃdhana mṛtā ye ca patitā ātmaghātakāḥ | ātmavikrayiṇaścorā ye tathā'yājyayājakāḥ
الذين ماتوا شنقًا، والساقطون، ومن قتلوا أنفسهم؛ ومن باعوا أنفسهم، واللصوص، ومن تولّوا إقامة قرابين محرّمة—كلّهم داخلون أيضًا.
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī-Gaṅgā (śānti for patita/akāla-mṛta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ritual inquirer/pilgrim audience
Scene: At the ghāṭa, the performer offers tarpaṇa for troubled souls—those who died by hanging or suicide and other ‘fallen’—shown as shadowed figures gradually turning luminous as Gaṅgā’s light touches them.
FAQs
Kāśī–Gaṅgā’s grace and the duty of remembrance extend even to socially/religiously marginalized dead; dharma aims at upliftment.
Gaṅgā in Kāśī, in the context of pitṛkarman performed at this tīrtha.
Offer tarpaṇa even for those considered “patita” or who died by hanging or self-harm, and other condemned categories.