Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 84
ततः पुत्रैश्च पौत्रैश्च सहितोऽन्यैश्च बन्धुभिः । लोष्टैस्तं ताडयामास भर्त्समानो मुहुर्मुहुः
tataḥ putraiśca pautraiśca sahito'nyaiśca bandhubhiḥ | loṣṭaistaṃ tāḍayāmāsa bhartsamāno muhurmuhuḥ
मग पुत्र, पौत्र आणि इतर नातेवाईकांसह त्याने मातीच्या ढेकळांनी त्याला मारले आणि वारंवार त्याची निंदा केली।
Narrator (Purāṇic narrative voice)
Type: kshetra
Listener: brāhmaṇas (dvijāḥ)
Scene: A group—sons, grandsons, relatives—surrounds the victim, pelting and striking with clods while shouting insults; dust rises in the sacred precinct.
FAQs
When anger becomes collective, discernment collapses; Purāṇic dharma warns against impulsive condemnation without knowing the full truth.
Not specified directly in this verse; it remains within the chapter’s tīrtha-māhātmya narrative frame.
None.