Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 22
भोक्तानुमंता संस्कर्ता क्रयिविक्रयि हिंसकाः । उपहर्ता घातयिता हिंसकाश्चाष्टधा स्मृताः
bhoktānumaṃtā saṃskartā krayivikrayi hiṃsakāḥ | upahartā ghātayitā hiṃsakāścāṣṭadhā smṛtāḥ
On se souvient des violents comme étant au nombre de huit : celui qui mange, celui qui approuve, celui qui prépare, celui qui achète, celui qui vend, celui qui fournit ou offre, celui qui fait tuer et celui qui tue.
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.