Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 29
दण्डो यमस्य तावन्नो यावच्छापो द्विजोद्भवः । अग्निना ज्वाल्यते दृश्यं शापोद्दिष्टानपि स्वयम्
daṇḍo yamasya tāvanno yāvacchāpo dvijodbhavaḥ | agninā jvālyate dṛśyaṃ śāpoddiṣṭānapi svayam
യമന്റെ ദണ്ഡം അത്ര (തൽക്ഷണം) അല്ല; ബ്രാഹ്മണജന്യമായ ശാപമാണ് ശക്തം. അത് അഗ്നിപോലെ ജ്വലിച്ച്, ശാപം സൂചിപ്പിച്ചവരെയും സ്വയം ദഹിപ്പിക്കുന്നതായി കാണപ്പെടുന്നു.
Unspecified (didactic warning within Tīrthamāhātmya; emphasizes brāhmaṇa-śāpa as a dharmic force)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A dramatic allegory: Yama with daṇḍa stands distant and shadowed, while a bright, living flame labeled as ‘dvija-śāpa’ leaps forward toward a trembling offender; the flame extends to figures merely indicated by a pointing gesture, showing the curse’s autonomous spread.
FAQs
Disrespecting dharma’s custodians invites swift karmic consequence; moral-spiritual transgression is portrayed as self-igniting punishment.
No location is named in the verse; it functions as a general admonition within the tīrtha narrative setting.
No explicit rite is prescribed; the implied discipline is restraint and reverence toward brāhmaṇas and dharma.