Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 94
ये ये निनिंदुर्देवेशं ये ये च शुश्रुवुस्तदा । तेषां जिह्वाश्रुतीः कोपादच्छिनच्चाकरोद्द्विधा
ye ye niniṃdurdeveśaṃ ye ye ca śuśruvustadā | teṣāṃ jihvāśrutīḥ kopādacchinaccākaroddvidhā
All who reviled the Lord of the gods, and all who listened approvingly then—out of wrath he cut off their tongues and ears, splitting them in two.
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa narration)
Tirtha: Kāśī (didactic frame)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis / internal audience
Scene: The gaṇa, wrathful yet judicial, points toward blasphemers; tongues and ears are symbolically shown as split (suggested via torn speech-scrolls, broken ear-ornaments), while the crowd recoils; Śiva’s unseen authority dominates the scene.
FAQs
Not only speaking blasphemy but also tolerating or endorsing it is treated as participation in the offense.
Kāśī’s Śaiva dharma: reverence for Viśveśvara is non-negotiable within the sacred city’s ethos.
None; it is an ethical injunction conveyed through narrative consequence.