Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 79
चण्डोवाच । स्वामिनः प्रतिकूलास्तु धर्मद्वेषं करोतु च । साधुद्वेषपरा चैव बिसस्तैन्यं करोति या
caṇḍovāca | svāminaḥ pratikūlāstu dharmadveṣaṃ karotu ca | sādhudveṣaparā caiva bisastainyaṃ karoti yā
ચંડે કહ્યું—જે સ્ત્રી સ્વામી પ્રત્યે પ્રતિકૂળ રહે, ધર્મનો દ્વેષ કરે, સાધુઓની નિંદામાં તત્પર રહે અને કમળના રેશાં જેટલી નાની વસ્તુની પણ ચોરી કરે, તે પાપિણી જાણવી।
Caṇḍa
Type: kund
Listener: assembly within the tīrtha narrative (implied sages/companions)
Scene: A didactic assembly where Caṇḍa enumerates marks of sin: a woman turning away from her husband, scowling at dharma, mocking sādhus, and secretly taking lotus-fibres from a sacred pond.
FAQs
Dharma is upheld by loyalty, reverence for the virtuous, and honesty; hatred toward dharma and saints, along with even “small” theft, leads to demerit (pāpa) and spiritual decline.
This verse itself is ethical instruction within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya context; the specific tīrtha is not named in the provided excerpt.
No direct ritual (snāna, dāna, japa, vrata) is prescribed here; the focus is on condemning anti-dharmic conduct such as sādhu-dveṣa and theft.