Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 3
सप्त जन्मानि देवेशि न तस्यान्वयसंभवः । चौरः कश्चिद्भवेत्क्रूरस्तत्र स्नानप्रभावतः
sapta janmāni deveśi na tasyānvayasaṃbhavaḥ | cauraḥ kaścidbhavetkrūrastatra snānaprabhāvataḥ
ഹേ ദേവേശി, ഏഴ് ജന്മങ്ങൾ വരെ അവന്റെ വംശപരമ്പര തുടരുകയില്ല; അവിടത്തെ സ്നാനപ്രഭാവം മൂലം അവൻ ഏതോ ക്രൂര മോഷ്ടാവായി മാറും—എന്നിങ്ങനെ ഉപദേശിക്കുന്നു.
Īśvara (Śiva) (narrative explanation continues)
Tirtha: Kuṇḍalasaṃbhava-kūpa (contextual)
Type: kund
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: A didactic tableau: shadowy scenes of repeated births marked by theft and cruelty, contrasted with the luminous possibility of purification at the sacred well; the narrative voice warns of long karmic chains.
FAQs
Actions shape future births and social outcomes; the Māhātmya frames moral causality alongside tīrtha-based purification.
The same Kuṇḍalasaṃbhava bathing-place context of Adhyāya 148 (implied by ‘tatra’).
No new rite is prescribed; the verse explains karmic/biographical consequences in the tīrtha narrative framework.