Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 59
एतस्य गल्लावुत्फुल्लौ क्षुरेणाशुवि पाटय । पाशेन कंठं बद्धास्य समुल्लंबय भूरुहे
etasya gallāvutphullau kṣureṇāśuvi pāṭaya | pāśena kaṃṭhaṃ baddhāsya samullaṃbaya bhūruhe
ಇವನ ಉಬ್ಬಿದ ಕೆನ್ನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕ್ಷೌರದ ಕತ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಕೂಡಲೇ ಸೀಳಿಹಾಕು. ಇವನ ಕುತ್ತಿಗೆಗೆ ಹಗ್ಗವನ್ನು ಕಟ್ಟಿ ಮರಕ್ಕೆ ನೇತುಹಾಕು.
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Avimukta-Kāśī
Type: kshetra
Scene: A condemned man’s cheeks are cut with a razor; a noose is tightened around his neck; he is hoisted and hung from a tree—an austere, terrifying scene meant as warning.
FAQs
Harmful actions return as harm; the text dramatizes karmic inevitability to steer the listener toward dharma.
The passage belongs to the Kāśīkhaṇḍa (Kāśī), but it does not name a particular tīrtha in this verse.
None directly; the implied corrective is repentance (prāyaścitta) and ethical restraint.