Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 22
भोक्तानुमंता संस्कर्ता क्रयिविक्रयि हिंसकाः । उपहर्ता घातयिता हिंसकाश्चाष्टधा स्मृताः
bhoktānumaṃtā saṃskartā krayivikrayi hiṃsakāḥ | upahartā ghātayitā hiṃsakāścāṣṭadhā smṛtāḥ
The violent are remembered as eightfold: the eater, the approver, the preparer, the buyer, the seller, the provider or offerer, the one who causes the killing, and the killer.
Skanda (deduced; Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A wheel diagram of eight roles around a central act of killing: eater, approver, cook, buyer, seller, supplier, instigator, killer; Kāśī ghats in the background to show the teaching applies amid daily commerce.
FAQs
Karma attaches not only to the direct killer but to the entire chain that enables harm—consent and commerce also bind.
Kāśī is the textual setting (Kāśīkhaṇḍa), but the verse is an ethical enumeration rather than a tīrtha-stuti.
No ritual is prescribed; it defines categories of culpability connected to hiṃsā.