Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 77
सूचीभेद्येऽथ संदंशे लालापे क्षुरधारके । प्रत्येकं नरके त्वेष पात्यतां कल्पसंख्यया
sūcībhedye'tha saṃdaṃśe lālāpe kṣuradhārake | pratyekaṃ narake tveṣa pātyatāṃ kalpasaṃkhyayā
—in Sūcībhedya, dann in Saṃdaṃśa, in Lālāpa und in Kṣuradhāraka—in jede Hölle, eine nach der anderen, möge er geworfen werden, für eine Zahl von Kalpas.
Skanda (deduced: Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta) implied as deliverance from long saṃsāric suffering
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience within the Kāśī-khaṇḍa frame (not explicit)
Scene: A grim procession through needle-piercing torment (Sūcībhedya), crushing with tongs/presses (Saṃdaṃśa), a realm of drooling/forced saliva and thirst (Lālāpa), and razor-edge pathways (Kṣuradhāraka); above, a cosmic clock motif indicating ‘kalpa-sankhyā’.
FAQs
Persistent adharma yields prolonged and repeated suffering; moral accountability is inescapable in the Purāṇic vision.
None is named; the focus is on naraka consequences within the Kāśī narrative arc.
No direct prescription; it is a judicial pronouncement of punishment.