Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 38
महामांसाशनं यस्मात्कारितोऽहं त्वयाधम । रक्षोवद्राक्षसस्तस्मात्त्वमद्यैव भविष्यसि
mahāmāṃsāśanaṃ yasmātkārito'haṃ tvayādhama | rakṣovadrākṣasastasmāttvamadyaiva bhaviṣyasi
„Weil du, Elender, mich dazu gebracht hast, großes Fleisch zu essen, wirst du noch heute zu einem Rākṣasa werden, wie einer, der rākṣasische Natur besitzt.“
Vasiṣṭha (curse/condemnation)
Listener: (assembly of sages)
Scene: Vasiṣṭha, blazing with ascetic power, pronounces a curse; the offender recoils as the doom of becoming a rākṣasa is declared ‘today itself’.
FAQs
Deliberate adharma against a sage rebounds swiftly; moral law is portrayed as immediate and transformative.
No specific tīrtha is named in this verse; it serves the chapter’s moral arc within the Tīrthamāhātmya.
None; the verse is a curse-pronouncement (śāpa) rooted in dharmic violation.