Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 21
हा मातस्तात पुत्रेति प्रकुर्वंति सुदारुणम् । परपाकरताः क्षुद्राः परद्रव्या पहारकाः
hā mātastāta putreti prakurvaṃti sudāruṇam | parapākaratāḥ kṣudrāḥ paradravyā pahārakāḥ
“হা মাতা! হা পিতা! হা পুত্ৰ!” বুলি তেওঁলোকে অতি দাৰুণ দুখত কান্দি উঠে—সেই ক্ষুদ্ৰচিত্ত লোকসকল, যিসকলে পৰক দুখ দিয়া ভাল পায় আৰু পৰধন হৰণ কৰে।
Yama (Dharmarāja)
Scene: A dark, infernal corridor where sinners clutch their heads and cry out ‘mātā, tāta, putra’ while shadowy figures representing theft and cruelty loom; the mood is lamentation and moral warning rather than spectacle.
FAQs
Theft and malicious harm lead to intense suffering; dharma demands non-injury and respect for others’ property.
No holy site is named in this verse; it continues the moral-cosmological teaching within the tīrtha-māhātmya chapter.
None explicitly; the implied prescription is ethical restraint (ahiṃsā, asteya) as dharmic conduct.