Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 54
एतदेव हि ते ब्रह्मन्प्रायश्चित्तं प्रकीर्तितम् । जनहास्यकरं लोके तव गर्हाकरं परम्
etadeva hi te brahmanprāyaścittaṃ prakīrtitam | janahāsyakaraṃ loke tava garhākaraṃ param
হে ব্ৰাহ্মণ! এইয়েই তোমাৰ প্ৰায়শ্চিত্ত বুলি ঘোষণা কৰা হৈছে—ই লোকসমাজত তোমাক উপহাসৰ পাত্ৰ কৰে আৰু তোমাৰ ওপৰত পৰম গৰ্হা আনে।
Unspecified (contextual narrator/authority voice within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya)
Type: kshetra
Listener: brāhmaṇa (addressed as 'brahman')
Scene: A solemn ritual arena with a consecrated altar; a Brahmin stands chastened as a speaker pronounces expiation that will bring public ridicule and severe reproach.
FAQs
True expiation may demand humility and endurance of blame; purification is not always socially comfortable.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it continues the māhātmya’s moral-ritual framework.
The verse identifies a particular prāyaścitta (expiation) characterized by public ridicule, without detailing a separate rite.