Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 5
असकृत्पापपापेति गच्छगच्छ नराधम । यज्ञवेदिर्न चार्हा हि मानुषास्थिधरस्य ते
asakṛtpāpapāpeti gacchagaccha narādhama | yajñavedirna cārhā hi mānuṣāsthidharasya te
അവർ വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും വിളിച്ചു— “പാപം! പാപം! പോകുക, പോകുക, ഹേ നരാധമാ! മനുഷ്യ അസ്ഥികൾ ധരിക്കുന്ന നിനക്ക് ഈ യജ്ഞവേദി തീർച്ചയായും അയോഗ്യമാണ്।”
Īśvara (Śiva) (narrating the quoted speech of the Brahmins)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Surēśvarī (addressed as ‘Queen of the gods’, i.e., Devī/Umā)
Scene: A yajña-maṇḍapa with blazing vedi; sages and officiants recoil, pointing and shouting ‘pāpa’; a lone figure marked by a skull-bowl (kapāla) stands at the threshold, tension between sacred order and the Lord’s unsettling play.
FAQs
Judging holiness solely by external purity codes can become cruelty and blindness to the divine.
Kapāleśvara in Prabhāsakṣetra, whose legend unfolds from this sacrificial confrontation.
None; it records the priests’ exclusionary speech at the sacrificial altar.