Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 58
तदर्धदेहं निक्षिप्य बहिश्चुक्रोश कैतवात् । अहो व्याघ्रेण भग्नोऽयं जग्धो गोवत्सको व्रजे
tadardhadehaṃ nikṣipya bahiścukrośa kaitavāt | aho vyāghreṇa bhagno'yaṃ jagdho govatsako vraje
उस आधे शव को बाहर फेंककर वह कपट से चिल्लाई—“हाय! गोशाला में इस बछड़े को बाघ ने मारकर खा लिया!”
Narrator (context not specified in snippet; Purāṇic narrative voice)
Scene: She tosses the half-body outside, then performs a staged cry to neighbors: hands on head, exaggerated grief; the half-eaten calf visible near the threshold; night street outside.
FAQs
Sin multiplies when violence is followed by deceit; concealment becomes an added moral fault with its own karmic weight.
No sacred site is glorified; “vraja” here denotes a cattle-settlement, not a pilgrimage tīrtha.
No ritual instruction is present.