Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 13
रसविक्रयिणो ये च ये चान्ये पापरोगिणः । अग्निदा गरदाश्चैव गोघ्नाश्चैव स्ववंशजाः
rasavikrayiṇo ye ca ye cānye pāparogiṇaḥ | agnidā garadāścaiva goghnāścaiva svavaṃśajāḥ
जे मद्यादि रसांचा विक्रय करतात आणि जे अन्य पापरोगांनी ग्रस्त आहेत; आग लावणारे, विष देणारे व गोहत्या करणारे—स्वतःच्या वंशात जन्मलेले असले तरी—तेही (यात) धरले जातात।
Skanda
Tirtha: Kāśī-kṣetra (implied)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and other ṛṣis (frame)
Scene: A somber Kāśī setting where the narrator enumerates grave sinners—liquor traders, arsonists, poisoners, cow-slayers—yet the sacred city’s compassionate aura suggests their inclusion in a rite of uplift.
FAQs
The duty of śrāddha/tarpaṇa is not cancelled by another’s sins; remembrance and offering are channels of purification and mercy.
Kāśī’s Gaṅgā-tīrtha setting frames these verses as a powerful place for ancestral upliftment.
Include in offerings even relatives guilty of grave sins (arson, poisoning, cow-slaughter) and those marked by sinful afflictions.