Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 24
पाखंडिनो दुर्जनाः पापशीला विप्रं दृष्ट्वा चोद्धता उन्मदाश्च । वध्यास्त्याज्याः सद्भिरेवंविधा हि तस्मादेनं शापितुं चोद्यतोऽस्मि
pākhaṃḍino durjanāḥ pāpaśīlā vipraṃ dṛṣṭvā coddhatā unmadāśca | vadhyāstyājyāḥ sadbhirevaṃvidhā hi tasmādenaṃ śāpituṃ codyato'smi
पाखंडी, दुर्जन आणि पापी लोक ब्राह्मणाला पाहूनही उद्धट आणि उन्मत्त होतात. अशा प्रकारचे लोक सज्जनांनी वध करण्यास आणि त्याग करण्यास योग्य आहेत, म्हणून मी याला शाप देण्यासाठी सज्ज झालो आहे.
Dakṣa
Tirtha: Kedāra (contextual frame)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇa assembly within the story; also purāṇic audience (contextual)
Scene: Dakṣa, eyes widened and brows knit, declares that such ‘heretics’ are to be punished and announces his intention to curse; brāhmaṇas react—some approving, some uneasy—while the yajña fire flares.
FAQs
Condemning the divine under the guise of moral judgment is itself adharma; anger-driven speech becomes the cause of one’s own fall.
No site is praised; the verse continues the Naimiṣāraṇya-based conflict narrative.
None; it announces an intended curse (śāpa), not a prescribed rite.