Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
कुत्सितोनाम विख्यातो द्विजायं चाष्टमोऽधमः । श्लेष्ममूत्राभिसंपूर्णैस्तथा गन्धैश्च कुत्सितैः
kutsitonāma vikhyāto dvijāyaṃ cāṣṭamo'dhamaḥ | śleṣmamūtrābhisaṃpūrṇaistathā gandhaiśca kutsitaiḥ
ഹേ ദ്വിജശ്രേഷ്ഠാ! എട്ടാമത്തെ അധമ നരകം ‘കുത്സിത’ എന്നു പ്രസിദ്ധം; അത് ശ്ലേഷ്മ‑മൂത്രം നിറഞ്ഞതും ഹീന ദുർഗന്ധം പരത്തുന്നതുമാണ്।
Skanda (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya narrative style)
Tirtha: Kutsita (Naraka)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija (addressed as ‘dvijasattama’/‘best of brāhmaṇas’)
Scene: A cavernous hell labeled ‘Kutsita’: pools and vapors of bodily filth, oppressive stench rendered visually as greenish haze; sinners wade and recoil while Yama’s agents drive them onward.
FAQs
Impure, adharmic conduct ripens into correspondingly impure suffering; the Purāṇa warns that moral degradation yields degrading results.
This verse is part of a Tīrthamāhātmya chapter but here it specifically describes a naraka; the tīrtha is not named in this shloka.
No direct ritual is prescribed in this verse; it functions as a karmic warning within the larger māhātmya context.