Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 34
परदाररतश्चापि परहिंसा रतोपि वा । परापवादशीलोपि तथा विस्रंभघातकः
paradārarataścāpi parahiṃsā ratopi vā | parāpavādaśīlopi tathā visraṃbhaghātakaḥ
وكذلك: من يهوى زوجةَ غيره، أو من يلازم أذى الناس؛ ومن اعتاد القذف والافتراء؛ وكذلك من يغدر بالأمانة ويخون الثقة—(فكلّهم يُعَدّون من ذوي الذنوب الفادحة).
Skanda (deduced; Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrimage audience
Scene: Four symbolic vignettes: illicit liaison, an act of harm, a whispering slanderer, and a broken handshake of betrayal—contrasted with a pilgrim’s steady gaze toward a Kāśī shrine.
FAQs
The verse condemns social and spiritual harms—adultery, violence, slander, and betrayal—as serious degradations of dharma.
Not named in this verse; the broader passage belongs to Kāśī’s Trilocana Māhātmya.
None directly; it is an ethical enumeration preparing the ground for the purificatory promise of Kāśī’s Śaiva worship.