Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 111
परस्त्रीकामुकाः क्षुद्रा विटा व्यसनिनश्च ये । तथा ह्यकर्मिणः स्तब्धास्तेषां मध्ये त्वमग्रणीः
parastrīkāmukāḥ kṣudrā viṭā vyasaninaśca ye | tathā hyakarmiṇaḥ stabdhāsteṣāṃ madhye tvamagraṇīḥ
「他人の妻を欲する者は卑しい。放蕩者や嗜欲に溺れる者もまた同じ。さらに怠け者と驕り高ぶる者――その一切の中で、お前は先頭に立つ。」
Rati
Tirtha: Kedāra/Kedāranātha kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Rati enumerates vices as if pointing to shadowy figures—adulterer, libertine, addict, idle man, arrogant man—while Nārada stands singled out as ‘foremost’ among them, his posture shrinking under the moral spotlight.
FAQs
Dharma condemns exploitation, vice, and idleness; a tapas-centered life demands ethical purity and humility.
No site is named; the verse is part of the Kedāra Khaṇḍa narrative set in a Śaiva tīrtha environment.
None explicitly; it functions as ethical instruction through censure of adharma.