Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 85
ब्रह्मघ्ने च सुरापे च स्तेये गुर्वङ्गनागमे । निष्कृतिर्विहिता शास्त्रे कृतघ्ने नास्ति निष्कृतिः
brahmaghne ca surāpe ca steye gurvaṅganāgame | niṣkṛtirvihitā śāstre kṛtaghne nāsti niṣkṛtiḥ
Für den Töter eines Brāhmaṇa, für den Trinker von Rauschtrank, für den Dieb und für den, der die Frau des Guru schändet, ist in der Śāstra Sühne vorgeschrieben; doch für den undankbaren Verräter gibt es keine Sühne.
Munis (addressing Yamadūtas)
Tirtha: Revā (Narmadā) context (sectional)
Type: river
Scene: A solemn dharma-assembly: a sage or narrator enumerates grave sins; a dark figure labeled ‘kṛtaghna’ stands apart, symbolically unpurified even as other sinners approach a river for expiation.
FAQs
Ingratitude—harming one who trusted or helped you—is portrayed as a uniquely destructive sin, beyond ordinary expiations.
None is named in this verse; it is a dharma/prāyaścitta teaching within the Revā Khaṇḍa context.
It states that scriptures prescribe prāyaścitta for major sins like brahmahatyā, surāpāna, theft, and violating the guru’s wife, but denies prāyaścitta for kṛtaghna.