Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 93
अब्रवीद्दुःखितो दीनः क्षिप्त्वाग्रे पत्रकद्वयम् । एकं पापसमुद्भूतमन्यद्धर्मसमुद्भवम्
abravīdduḥkhito dīnaḥ kṣiptvāgre patrakadvayam | ekaṃ pāpasamudbhūtamanyaddharmasamudbhavam
ദുഃഖിതനും ദീനനുമായി അവൻ പറഞ്ഞു; മുന്നിൽ രണ്ട് പത്രങ്ങൾ എറിഞ്ഞിട്ട്—“ഒന്ന് പാപത്തിൽ നിന്നുയർന്നത്, മറ്റൊന്ന് ധർമ്മത്തിൽ നിന്നുയർന്നത്” എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു.
Unspecified in snippet (contextual narrator within Tīrthamāhātmya)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A dejected figure (Dharmarāja in a narrative role of dharma’s custodian, yet ‘duḥkhita’ here) casts two palm-leaf documents forward—one darkened (sin-born), one bright (dharma-born)—before a radiant Brahmā.
FAQs
Human destiny is shaped by both pāpa and dharma, which are ‘accounted for’ and revealed in the tīrtha narrative.
The passage belongs to the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra tīrtha account (developed in the following verses).
No direct rite is prescribed here; it introduces a moral accounting (pāpa vs dharma) that the tīrtha’s power will address.