Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 79
चण्डोवाच । स्वामिनः प्रतिकूलास्तु धर्मद्वेषं करोतु च । साधुद्वेषपरा चैव बिसस्तैन्यं करोति या
caṇḍovāca | svāminaḥ pratikūlāstu dharmadveṣaṃ karotu ca | sādhudveṣaparā caiva bisastainyaṃ karoti yā
Caṇḍa berkata: “Sesiapa yang memusuhi suaminya, menumbuhkan kebencian terhadap dharma, tekun menghina orang saleh, dan mencuri—walau sekecil serabut teratai (bisa)—dialah yang berdosa.”
Caṇḍa
Type: kund
Listener: assembly within the tīrtha narrative (implied sages/companions)
Scene: A didactic assembly where Caṇḍa enumerates marks of sin: a woman turning away from her husband, scowling at dharma, mocking sādhus, and secretly taking lotus-fibres from a sacred pond.
FAQs
Dharma is upheld by loyalty, reverence for the virtuous, and honesty; hatred toward dharma and saints, along with even “small” theft, leads to demerit (pāpa) and spiritual decline.
This verse itself is ethical instruction within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya context; the specific tīrtha is not named in the provided excerpt.
No direct ritual (snāna, dāna, japa, vrata) is prescribed here; the focus is on condemning anti-dharmic conduct such as sādhu-dveṣa and theft.