Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 22
भोक्तानुमंता संस्कर्ता क्रयिविक्रयि हिंसकाः । उपहर्ता घातयिता हिंसकाश्चाष्टधा स्मृताः
bhoktānumaṃtā saṃskartā krayivikrayi hiṃsakāḥ | upahartā ghātayitā hiṃsakāścāṣṭadhā smṛtāḥ
暴力に与する者は八種と説かれる。食する者、承認する者、調理する者、買う者、売る者、供え与える者、殺させる者、そして自ら殺す者である。
Skanda (deduced; Kāśīkhaṇḍa commonly Skanda speaking to Agastya)
Tirtha: Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A wheel diagram of eight roles around a central act of killing: eater, approver, cook, buyer, seller, supplier, instigator, killer; Kāśī ghats in the background to show the teaching applies amid daily commerce.
FAQs
Karma attaches not only to the direct killer but to the entire chain that enables harm—consent and commerce also bind.
Kāśī is the textual setting (Kāśīkhaṇḍa), but the verse is an ethical enumeration rather than a tīrtha-stuti.
No ritual is prescribed; it defines categories of culpability connected to hiṃsā.