Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 38
मंडपं ध्वंसयामासुः केचित्क्रोधोद्धुरागणाः । अचीखनन्वै वेदीश्च केचिद्वै शूलपाणयः । अभक्षयन्हवींष्यन्ये पृषदाज्यं पपुः परे
maṃḍapaṃ dhvaṃsayāmāsuḥ kecitkrodhoddhurāgaṇāḥ | acīkhananvai vedīśca kecidvai śūlapāṇayaḥ | abhakṣayanhavīṃṣyanye pṛṣadājyaṃ papuḥ pare
ക്രോധോന്മത്തരായ ചില ഗണങ്ങൾ മണ്ഡപം തകർത്തു. ശൂലപാണികളായ ചിലർ വേദികൾ കുഴിച്ചു പിഴുതെടുത്തു. മറ്റുള്ളവർ ഹവിസ്സ് ഭക്ഷിച്ചു; ചിലർ പൃഷദാജ്യം പാനം ചെയ്തു।
Narrator (Skanda to Agastya, inferred)
Tirtha: Kāśī (Avimukta)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame implied)
Scene: Wrathful gaṇas smash the pavilion, spear-bearers dig up altars, others seize and eat the oblations, while some drink the pṛṣadājya; the sacred fire sputters amid chaos, with scattered ritual vessels and fleeing attendants.
FAQs
Ritual offerings lose sanctity when pride and insult pollute the rite; dharma restores balance by exposing hollow ceremony.
No tīrtha is directly praised; the passage narrates the collapse of Dakṣa’s sacrificial setting.
None prescribed; it references ritual components (maṇḍapa, vedī, havis, pṛṣadājya) in the context of their violation.