Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 8
गुरुरात्मवतां शास्ता राजा शास्ता दुरात्मनाम् । इह प्रच्छन्नपापानां शास्ता वैवस्वतो यमः
gururātmavatāṃ śāstā rājā śāstā durātmanām | iha pracchannapāpānāṃ śāstā vaivasvato yamaḥ
आत्मसंयमी जनांसाठी गुरुच शास्ता, दुरात्म्यांसाठी राजा शास्ता; पण या लोकी ज्यांची पापे गुप्त राहतात, त्यांचा खरा दंडदाता वैवस्वत यम आहे।
Mārkaṇḍeya
Listener: Pārtha (Arjuna)
Scene: Tripartite allegory: a guru instructing a calm disciple; a king administering justice to a wrongdoer; and Yama, stern yet lawful, holding a staff/noose, symbolizing unseen accountability.
FAQs
No deed is truly unaccounted for: hidden wrongdoing escapes human courts but not cosmic justice administered by Yama.
None; the verse is ethical instruction within the Revā Khaṇḍa narrative.
None explicitly; it implies the need for repentance and transparent dharmic living.