Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 57
सुरापानं तु चान्यस्य संजातं चाप्यकामतः । गोवध्या चाप्यकामेन कृता चैकेन पापिना
surāpānaṃ tu cānyasya saṃjātaṃ cāpyakāmataḥ | govadhyā cāpyakāmena kṛtā caikena pāpinā
Un autre tomba dans le péché de boire l’alcool, bien que sans le vouloir. Et un pécheur, même sans intention, commit le meurtre d’une vache.
Narrator (contextual purāṇic voice within Revā Khaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Narmadā (Revā) tīrtha
Type: kshetra
Listener: null
Scene: Sinners describing accidental liquor-drinking and unintended cow-killing before brāhmaṇas; a cow depicted symbolically at the edge; river as witness.
FAQs
The text acknowledges even unintentional wrongdoing (akāmataḥ) as karmically weighty, preparing the claim of tīrtha-led purification.
Revā/Narmadā tīrtha in the Revā Khaṇḍa setting.
None explicitly; the verse frames sins (intentional and unintentional) relevant to prāyaścitta through tīrtha.