Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 94
गालव उवाच । बकवृत्तिमुपाश्रित्य वंचितोऽहं यतस्त्वया । तस्माद्बकस्त्वं भविता चिरकालं नराधम
gālava uvāca | bakavṛttimupāśritya vaṃcito'haṃ yatastvayā | tasmādbakastvaṃ bhavitā cirakālaṃ narādhama
ഗാലവൻ പറഞ്ഞു—‘ബകവൃത്തിയെ ആശ്രയിച്ച് നീ എന്നെ വഞ്ചിച്ചു; അതിനാൽ, ഹേ നരാധമാ, നീ ദീർഘകാലം ബകനായി തന്നെ ഇരിക്കും.’
Gālava
Listener: The offender (addressed as ‘narādhama’)
Scene: Gālava pronounces the curse with judicial clarity; the offender is depicted with crane symbolism—either a shadow of a crane behind him or partial avian features—signaling the moral mirroring of deceit into form.
FAQs
Deceit (vañcana) rebounds upon the deceiver; adopting hypocritical ‘crane-like’ behavior leads to fitting karmic punishment.
No tīrtha is mentioned; the verse is ethical and narrative.
None.