Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 74
नारद उवाच । ग्रहा गावो नरेंद्राश्च ब्राह्मणाश्च विशेषतः । पूजिताः प्रतिपूज्यंते निर्दहंत्यपमानिताः
nārada uvāca | grahā gāvo nareṃdrāśca brāhmaṇāśca viśeṣataḥ | pūjitāḥ pratipūjyaṃte nirdahaṃtyapamānitāḥ
नारद उवाच—ग्रहा गावो नरेन्द्राश्च ब्राह्मणाश्च विशेषतः। पूजिताः प्रतिपूज्यन्ते, निर्दहन्त्यपमानिताः॥
Nārada (explicit)
Listener: The boy (and by extension pilgrims)
Scene: Nārada instructs with raised hand in teaching gesture; symbolic quartet appears: a radiant graha-disc, a cow, a crowned king, and a brāhmaṇa with yajñopavīta—arranged as emblems around him.
FAQs
Dharma is relational: honor given to sacred powers and dharmic pillars returns as protection; insult returns as suffering.
No specific tīrtha is named; the verse provides general dharma instruction within a tīrtha narrative.
Honor/worship (pūjā) as a practical remedy—especially toward grahas, cows, kings, and brāhmaṇas.
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