Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 36
गोघ्नः स्त्रीघ्नोपि शूद्रघ्नः कन्यादूषयितापि च । क्रूरो वा पिशुनो वापि निजधर्मपराङ्मुखः
goghnaḥ strīghnopi śūdraghnaḥ kanyādūṣayitāpi ca | krūro vā piśuno vāpi nijadharmaparāṅmukhaḥ
Ein Töter einer Kuh, ein Töter einer Frau, ein Töter eines Śūdra und wer eine Jungfrau entehrt; oder wer grausam ist, oder ein böswilliger Denunziant; und wer sich von seinem eigenen Dharma abwendet—alle werden hier zu den schwer Sündigen gezählt.
Skanda (deduced; Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda → Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Pilgrimage audience
Scene: A stark contrast: shadowed figures committing violence and cruelty at the margins, while a central pilgrim stands before a Kāśī shrine taking a vow of ahiṃsā and svadharma, with cows and women protected in the foreground.
FAQs
Violence, sexual violation, cruelty, harmful speech, and abandoning one’s duty are condemned as heavy violations of dharma.
Not explicit in the verse; the surrounding passage is the Kāśī glorification of the Trilocana/Mahāliṅga.
None directly; the verse is part of a moral inventory that frames the extraordinary purificatory power ascribed to Kāśī’s Śaiva worship.