Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 35
मित्रद्रोहे च यत्पापं यत्पापं गुरुवंचके । तेन पापेन लिप्यामि यद्यहं नागमे पुनः
mitradrohe ca yatpāpaṃ yatpāpaṃ guruvaṃcake | tena pāpena lipyāmi yadyahaṃ nāgame punaḥ
„Wenn ich nicht wiederkomme, möge mich die Sünde beflecken, die im Verrat am Freund liegt, und die Sünde, die im Betrug am Guru liegt.“
Kapilā (Cow)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra (implied)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied audience
Scene: Kapilā invokes two relational sins—betraying a friend and deceiving a guru—as the stain she accepts if she fails to return; composition can show two figures symbolically: a friend offering help and a guru offering instruction, both contrasted with Kapilā’s vow.
FAQs
Loyalty is dharma: betrayal of friend or guru destroys trust; therefore one must honor promises even when survival is at stake.
No particular tīrtha is named; the verse is an ethical oath within the Arbuda section.
None; it is an oath listing moral transgressions as consequences.