Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 39
पापमाचरते योषा तेन पापेन नान्यथा । लिप्यंते बहवः पक्षा इति वेदानुशासनम्
pāpamācarate yoṣā tena pāpena nānyathā | lipyaṃte bahavaḥ pakṣā iti vedānuśāsanam
स्त्री जे पाप आचरते, ती त्याच पापानेच लिप्त होते, अन्यथा नाही; तरी अनेक पक्ष/संगही कलुषित होतात—हे वेदाचे अनुशासन आहे.
Bṛhaspati (contextual continuation of instruction)
Tirtha: Kedāra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvija audience; internal interlocutors in the episode
Scene: A didactic moment: a speaker cites ‘Vedic instruction’ while listeners weigh the moral logic of sin, agency, and association.
FAQs
Actions carry consequences: individual wrongdoing stains the doer, and its effects can extend through associations and social bonds.
Kedārakhaṇḍa provides the setting; the verse itself is a dharma statement rather than a direct tīrtha praise.
None; it presents a moral-legal principle framed as Vedic instruction.