Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 6
अद्यप्रभृति चानेन यः संबंधं करिष्यति । सोऽपि बाह्यस्तु सर्वेषां नागराणां भविष्यति
adyaprabhṛti cānena yaḥ saṃbaṃdhaṃ kariṣyati | so'pi bāhyastu sarveṣāṃ nāgarāṇāṃ bhaviṣyati
Von heute an wird jeder, der irgendeine Verbindung mit ihm eingeht, ebenfalls von allen Nāgara ausgeschlossen werden.
Nāgaras (collective speakers within Sūta’s narration)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A council of Nāgara elders/brāhmaṇas pronounces a ban: anyone associating with the censured man will be treated as an outcaste; townspeople recoil, doors half-closed, the accused standing isolated.
FAQs
Dharma is protected not only by punishing wrongdoing but also by discouraging complicity; association with adharma carries communal consequences.
The ruling appears within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra-māhātmya narrative frame in Nāgara Khaṇḍa.
No direct ritual; it prescribes a social restriction—avoid association (saṃbandha) with the censured person.