Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 73
ब्रह्मघ्नं चांधतामिस्रे सुरापं पूयशोणिते । कालसूत्रे हेमचौरमवीचौ गुरुतल्पगम्
brahmaghnaṃ cāṃdhatāmisre surāpaṃ pūyaśoṇite | kālasūtre hemacauramavīcau gurutalpagam
Le meurtrier d’un brāhmane va à Andhatāmisra ; le buveur d’ivresses à Pūyaśoṇita ; le voleur d’or à Kālasūtra ; et celui qui profane la couche du guru à Avīci.
Skanda (deduced for Kāśīkhaṇḍa)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied attendants and audience (Andhaka in surrounding sequence)
Scene: A didactic tableau listing four archetypal sinners, each being led toward a distinct infernal landscape: pitch-dark Andhatāmisra, a river of pus-and-blood Pūyaśoṇita, binding lines/ropes of Kālasūtra, and the bottomless Avīci abyss.
FAQs
The Purāṇa highlights mahāpātakas (great sins) and teaches that moral order is upheld through inevitable karmic consequence.
The passage belongs to Kāśīkhaṇḍa’s Kāśī setting; the verse itself is a doctrinal catalog of sins rather than a site description.
None directly; it implies the need for restraint, purity, and repentance to avoid mahāpātakas.