Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 10
तेषां विनाशजं दुःखं मा नुषे त्वमवाप्स्यसि । नागत्वे वर्तमानायाः शापं तेऽमुं ददाम्यहम्
teṣāṃ vināśajaṃ duḥkhaṃ mā nuṣe tvamavāpsyasi | nāgatve vartamānāyāḥ śāpaṃ te'muṃ dadāmyaham
മനുഷ്യജന്മത്തിൽ അവരുടെ നാശത്തിൽ നിന്നുണ്ടാകുന്ന ദുഃഖം നീ അനുഭവിക്കും. ഇപ്പോൾ നാഗിയായിരിക്കുന്ന നിനക്ക് ഞാൻ ഈ ശാപം നൽകുന്നു.
Unnamed brahmin woman/kinswoman (contextual; completing the curse)
Scene: The woman completes the curse with a steady, ritual-like posture; the nāgī is shown in present serpent-form with a shadow of future human grief behind her—burning pyres or a stormy horizon symbolizing loss.
FAQs
Karma can mature as experiential suffering: one who causes ruin may be compelled to taste ruin through one’s own attachments.
The verse is embedded in a tīrtha-māhātmya chapter but does not itself identify the tīrtha; it advances the moral plot leading to the chapter’s sacred-geography teaching.
None here.