Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 50
मानापमानयोस्तस्मात्स्वकृतं कारणं परम् । स्रष्टापि नापमार्ष्टुं तत्परीष्टे स्वकृतां कृतिम् । मा शोचस्त्वमतः पुत्र दिष्टमिष्टं समर्पयेत्
mānāpamānayostasmātsvakṛtaṃ kāraṇaṃ param | sraṣṭāpi nāpamārṣṭuṃ tatparīṣṭe svakṛtāṃ kṛtim | mā śocastvamataḥ putra diṣṭamiṣṭaṃ samarpayet
मानापमानयोस्तस्मात् स्वकृतमेव परमं कारणम्। स्रष्टापि तन्नापमार्ष्टुं शक्नोति; स्वकृतां कृतिमेव परीक्षते। अतः पुत्र, मा शोच; दिष्टमिष्टं समर्पयेत्।
Sunīti (addressing Dhruva)
Listener: Frame-audience (implicit)
Scene: Sunīti instructs Dhruva with a calm, authoritative gesture—one hand raised in teaching, the other resting; Dhruva listens, eyes steady; atmosphere of moral clarity.
FAQs
Honor and humiliation arise from one’s own karma; the right response is steadiness, surrender, and moral resolve.
No specific tīrtha is mentioned in this verse; it is ethical instruction within the Kāśīkhaṇḍa narrative frame.
No explicit ritual is given; the ‘prescription’ is inner discipline—accepting destiny and relinquishing attachment.