Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 29
धर्मस्य यस्य श्रद्धा स्यान्न च सा नैव पूर्यते । पापस्य यस्य श्रद्धास्यान्न च सापि न पूर्यते
dharmasya yasya śraddhā syānna ca sā naiva pūryate | pāpasya yasya śraddhāsyānna ca sāpi na pūryate
مَن كانت ثقتُه بالدَّرما (dharma) فلا تكتملُ له، ومَن كانت ثقتُه بالإثم فلا يكتملُ له أيضًا—فذلك يظلّ محروماً مُحبطاً من الجانبين.
Unspecified narrator (gnomic dharma teaching)
Listener: Phālguna (Arjuna)
Scene: An introspective moral tableau: a person torn between dharma and sin, unable to complete either; symbolic split path—one toward a temple/river, one toward a dark alley—yet the person stands immobilized.
FAQs
A divided or unstable intention yields neither dharmic fruition nor even the satisfaction of wrongdoing—clarity of resolve aligned to dharma is essential.
None; this verse is a general dharma maxim rather than a site-mahātmya statement.
No specific ritual is prescribed; it addresses inner disposition (śraddhā) and karmic fruition.