Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 27
नाशं नीता वयं सर्वे सपुत्रपशुबाधवाः । तस्माच्छापं प्रदास्यामो वयं दुःखेन दुःखिताः
nāśaṃ nītā vayaṃ sarve saputrapaśubādhavāḥ | tasmācchāpaṃ pradāsyāmo vayaṃ duḥkhena duḥkhitāḥ
“ഞങ്ങൾ എല്ലാവരും—പുത്രന്മാരും പശുക്കളും ബന്ധുക്കളുമൊത്ത്—നാശത്തിലേക്ക് തള്ളപ്പെട്ടു. അതിനാൽ ദുഃഖത്തിൽ ദുഃഖിതരായി ഞങ്ങൾ ശാപം ഉച്ചരിക്കും.”
Viprāḥ (Brāhmaṇas)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Skanda
Scene: Brāhmaṇas lament their destroyed households; one holds a fallen child, another gestures toward dead cattle; their faces harden as they declare intent to curse.
FAQs
Unaddressed suffering can turn into condemnation; dharma demands that harm done to the innocent be remedied.
The setting is the tīrtha-māhātmya of Nāgarakhaṇḍa (Adhyāya 71), associated with the sacred mountain Raktaśṛṅga.
None explicitly; the verse emphasizes the moral force of a brāhmaṇa’s curse within purāṇic narrative.