Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 9
अभोक्षिषुर्दुराचाराः क्रूरकर्मपरिग्रहाः । नद्यो विमार्गगा आसञ्ज्वलंति न तथाग्नयः
abhokṣiṣurdurācārāḥ krūrakarmaparigrahāḥ | nadyo vimārgagā āsañjvalaṃti na tathāgnayaḥ
Ceux à la conduite mauvaise, voués à des actes cruels, semèrent le désordre : les rivières quittèrent leur lit, et les feux ne flamboyaient pas comme il se doit.
Skanda
Tirtha: Gaṅgā in Kāśī (Kāśī-ghāṭa tīrthas collectively)
Type: ghat
Listener: null
Scene: A surreal omen scene: a river bending away from its bed, eddies reversing; sacrificial fires sputtering with smoke but no flame; cruel men in the background as the unseen cause of elemental imbalance.
FAQs
Puranic dharma links moral collapse with ecological and elemental imbalance; righteousness sustains harmony in nature.
Kāśī is the narrative domain, but this verse is a general description of ominous disturbances.
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