Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 123
तद्दिने ये प्रकुर्वंति सम्यग्वेधेन शोभितम् । सशल्यं तन्न संदेहः प्रेतत्वं याति तेन च
taddine ye prakurvaṃti samyagvedhena śobhitam | saśalyaṃ tanna saṃdehaḥ pretatvaṃ yāti tena ca
ਉਸੇ ਦਿਨ ਜੋ ਲੋਕ ਵੇਧ ਦੇ ਦੋਸ਼ ਨਾਲ ‘ਸਮ੍ਯਕ’ ਸਮਝ ਕੇ ਕਰਮ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਨ ਅਤੇ ਇਸ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਦੂਸ਼ਿਤ ਹੋ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ—ਉਹ ਕਰਮ ਨਿਸ਼ਚੇ ਹੀ ‘ਕੰਟੇ ਵਾਲਾ’ ਹੈ; ਉਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਉਹ ਬਿਨਾ ਸੰਦੇਹ ਪ੍ਰੇਤ-ਭਾਵ ਨੂੰ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਹੁੰਦੇ ਹਨ।
Sūta (deduced)
Tirtha: Dvārakā (Hari’s sacred day observance)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee performs a rite under an inauspicious calendrical mark (symbolic ‘thorn’), while a learned priest points to a pañcāṅga showing vedha; a shadowy preta-form looms as a cautionary vision.
FAQs
Rituals must be done with correct sacred timing; negligence in tithi rules is treated as a serious dharmic fault.
The teaching occurs within Dvārakā Māhātmya, connecting dharma to the sanctity of Dvārakā and Hari’s worship.
Avoid performing rites when the tithi is improperly ‘pierced/overlapped’ (vedha) in a way deemed दोष (fault), as it taints the rite.
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