Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 32
परदाररतश्चैव परवित्तापहारकः । परापवादसंतुष्टः स प्रेतो जायते नरः
paradārarataścaiva paravittāpahārakaḥ | parāpavādasaṃtuṣṭaḥ sa preto jāyate naraḥ
ຜູ້ທີ່ຍິນດີໃນເມຍຂອງຜູ້ອື່ນ, ຜູ້ທີ່ລັກຊັບຂອງຜູ້ອື່ນ ແລະ ຜູ້ທີ່ພໍໃຈໃນການໃສ່ຮ້າຍປ້າຍສີຜູ້ອື່ນ, ຄົນຜູ້ນັ້ນຍ່ອມເກີດເປັນເຜດ.
Unspecified in snippet (likely the respondent/teacher in the dialogue)
Type: kshetra
Listener: King (nṛpa)
Scene: A moral triptych: shadowy vignettes of adultery, theft, and slander, with a preta-form emerging as the karmic result; narrator points as the king listens.
FAQs
Grave social and moral violations—sexual misconduct, theft, and malicious speech—are portrayed as karmic causes of a degraded afterlife state.
No tīrtha is specified in this verse; it focuses on ethical causation rather than site-glorification.
None explicit; the verse functions as a prohibition by warning of karmic results.
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