Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 92
अपि कीटपतंगा ये पशवः पक्षिणो मृगाः । तस्मिन्क्षेत्रे मृता यांति स्वर्गलोकं न संशयः
api kīṭapataṃgā ye paśavaḥ pakṣiṇo mṛgāḥ | tasminkṣetre mṛtā yāṃti svargalokaṃ na saṃśayaḥ
Même les insectes et les papillons de nuit, le bétail, les oiseaux et les bêtes sauvages—s’ils meurent dans ce lieu sacré—vont au monde céleste, sans aucun doute.
Sūta
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvija-uttamāḥ
Scene: A sacred landscape where small creatures—moths near a lamp, birds in flight, cattle by a river, deer in a grove—are enveloped by a gentle divine light at the moment of death, with a subtle celestial pathway opening upward toward svarga.
FAQs
The holiness of the kṣetra is so intense that its salvific grace extends beyond humans to all living beings.
The same kṣetra described in Adhyāya 26, acclaimed for granting svarga even to creatures that die within its bounds.
None; it is a phalaśruti about the merit associated with death occurring within the sacred boundary.